Re: writing boot floppies for sun4u from x86

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >>>>> "edmundo" == edmundo  <edmundo@rano.demon.co.uk> writes:
> edmundo> That error message is what you get if a disc has the wrong
> edmundo> sort of partition table. The same problem plagued me for
> edmundo> ages.
> 
> edmundo> If you partition a disc on a PC, you probably put an MSDOS
> edmundo> partition table on it. But Sun's PROM only understands Sun
> edmundo> partition tables.
> 
> Um, no, the documented way to write floppies out is with 'dd'. 
> This is raw device access; there is no problem with partition tables.
> 
> I have attempted to burn boot-floppies for a SUN4u architecure using
> x86 and had no luck, even when 'fdformat'ing from SunOS (5.6) and the
> (on x86) using dd with bs=1024.  No luck.
> 
> So, um, is it a Sun4u problem?
> 
> Is there any way to write boot floppies for sparc at all from x86?

It works on Sparc2 & SparcClassic at least.
My sparc2 floppy drive is very sensitive to medium quality so I needed to
write 3 floppies vefore giving a working one :(

Regards.

PS: I have no sun4u therefore I cannot help you on this part.

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