Re: New set of sparc boot disks
This is a follow-up to my post re SparcStation LX, ROM 2.9, 32 MB, 850
MB Quantum HD
--Burned CDROM with Base2_2.tgz with required file structure. (To find
the required file structure I just load any CD and select Use CDROM for
option ; When it tries to load the CD and fails it tells me what files
and directories it is looking for and this is how I set up and burn the
CD)
--sun4cdm Rescue floppy, had to again create missing
/target/sun4cdm/drivers.tgz directory.
--Load Base System off CD, a lot faster than floppies.
--install fails at creation of boot floppy after a brief flash of
Formatting floppy.....at top left of screen. Vt2 show fd0 not mounted
and all attempts at creating mount including suggested -n flag failed.
Was stuck in loop always sent back to "Create Boot Floppy"
--Stop-A and boot from sun4cdm rescue floppy with linux root=/dev/sda1
boots mostly from hard drive.( I need to play more here)
--RARP search slowed boot about 3 minutes
--Could not load Keymap; After Keymap selection, boot stops (hangs)
with no message. ENTER for some reason sends it on its way.
--As root; still could still not mount fd0!
-- Attempt to format fd0 from superformat starts format for about 3
seconds( the same length of time in "Create Boot Floppy Stage" with mini
core dump ending with message floppy 0, unexpected interrupt. repl[0]=0
repl[1]=0 repl[2]=0 repl[3]=2 repl[4]=1 repl[5]=0 repl[6]=0 format:
input/output error. vt2 shows fd0 mounted during this brief time.
A success story; my most cantankerous system a SparcStation 1, ROM 1.0,
16 MB, 540 IBM HD finally works!
--used sun4c Rescue floppy, as before added directory
/target/sun4cdm/drives.tgz through vt2.
--at Install Kernel & Module stage used sun4cdm Rescue disk-- during
decompressing SS1 froze so used sun4c disk, then CDROM for Base2_2.tgz
This SS1 generally does not like files on CDROM so this is great.
--During "Select Times Zone Menu" a message at bottom of screen stated,
"Cannot create /root/dbootstrap_setting :directory nonexistent" I
created it manually on vt2, not sure if it helped.
--Same problem during create boot floppy as noted above.
--Stop-A to exit. On restarting the boot-device on openprom was almost
properly configured. as sd(0,1,0) vmluniz linux root=/dev/sda1 .On
removing vmlinuz with setenv the SS1 booted directly from the hard
drive; a FIRST for this machine with Linux.
--As above RARP check very very slow during boot, could not load
Keymap-also needed ENTER to continue.
--As root could mount fd0 and scd0 with none of the problems note for
the LX
-- superformat gave same as errors as above. Problem with "create boot
floppy stage" could be a problem with "superformat" program.
--tried to load programs off Linux Debian Sparc CD 2.1_r1 which I know
is a good copy, but for some reason did not work! Will dig more at my
end.
The only none problem I noted was the slow speed the screens loaded.
The LX was slow as note in my first post; the SS1 being a slow machine
to start with was very slow. A full page menu takes 16 seconds to load
(yes I timed them) the smallest menu 10 seconds. It paints each letter
almost slower than I can read them, but it works which is a good start.
Thanks for all the work everyone has put in Debian.
Peter Myers
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