Re: booting old sparc with floppy
On Sun, Sep 19, 1999 at 09:14:41PM +0200, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> I always get "Read error on block nnn" when SILO starts to load and uncompress
> the kernel.
> I then tried to replace the compressed kernel by an uncompressed one, then SILO
> did not display this message and fully loaded the kernel :-))
> It seems the sparc2 is too slow to handle both reading and decompressing on the
> fly :-((
That's great, because my SS1 never booted from floppy for this same reason! :)
>
> framebuffers: CG14 LEO TCX
> scsi cards: QLOGIC/PTI
> net cards: HappyMeal, SunBMac, SunQE, Myrinet
> and other ones I missed...
SubBMac, SunQE, and Myrinet could probably be made into modules. I'll run down
the config and try to find others.
Ben
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