Re: sun4c floppy boot images status
Kurt Mosiejczuk writes:
> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > Well, I finally got ahold of a sparc 1+ sun4c to test the floppy boot
> > images, and to my dismay, they worked perfectly (both the sun4c and
> > sun4cdm). Now, this isn't to say that something isn't wrong, just that I
> > couldn't reproduce the problems that quite a few others have had.
> >
> > Question, what did everyone who had problems with the sun4c
> > floppies use to write the floppy images? I used dd on my i386
> > linux box. Did others use dd from other OS's, or perhaps even
> > rawrite under dos/windows?
> >
> > Ben
>
> Okay, I hadn't weighed in on this one because I hadn't tried it
> several times yet, but...
>
> I wrote the disks on my i386 Debian box (2.2 frozen) using dd
>
> I saw the same error on my IPX that everyone else has seeen...
I had the same problem (also on an IPX) and I have used dd on a debian
intel box (2.2 frozen) and I have tried twice on 2 different floppies
(to make sure it does not come from the floppy) and I have even tried
a new download of the image (sun4cdm). I have also tried the sun4c but
only once.
For your info, I have tried the debian-2.1r5 rescue disk too, and I
got the same problem! (only that the error occurs at a different block
number). But this is the resc1440-2.2.1.bin disk (I haven't tried the
resc1440.bin disks -- too much time lost already) while my old rescue
disk which works use a 2.0.35 kernel. So the problem may be related to
the kernel version (or how it is compressed)
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