Re: success with 990301 (was Re: new bootdisks to test)

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

Steve Dunham wrote:
> Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I've been able to boot my Ultra5 using the tftp boot image from 
> > lix.polytechnique.fr:/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/exp/disks-sparc/990301/
> 
> > I haven't tried the floppy images; so far, no luck with making floppies
> > from x86/Linux (using blocksizes of 1024 and 512, fdformatting on the
> > sparc or in linux).  Any clues would be helpful, this probably needs
> > to be added to the documentation.
> 
> I have some information at:
> 
>   http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham/debian/sparc/install.html
> 
> that can be added to the documentation.
> 
> According to jj, Sun says that the Ultra5 does not have floppy booting
> support.  (It looks like it does, but there is some code missing from
> the ROM.)  I personally haven't gotten the floppy drive to work on my
> machine after booting the kernel either.
> 
> I also can't get anything to boot on an Ultra1 (neither floppies that
> I make nor the UltraPenguin floppies).  I've heard reports to the
> contrary on this list, but I don't think they were using Eric's
> floppies.  (Eric you have to do "silo -u" to make Ultra floppies -
> given my experience with floppies, I'm not sure if it's worth the
> trouble to fix it.)

Argh :(  I'm afraid it's too late for slink now to change anything but the doc
in bootdisks.  Hopefully one can install over the network at least :-))

Regards.

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