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Re: 3.0.20 boot floppies available



On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:36:35PM +0100, Thomas J. Zeeman wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > Let me know how these work. I have not been able to test them yet.
> 
> sun4u flavour. booting from floppy.
> 
>   ...
>   floppy0: WARNING diskchange called early
>   (Warning: this kernel has no ramdisk support)
>   VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
> 
> Inserting the root flop and hitting enter freezes the machine.
> Seems to me there's something missing from the kernel-config for the
> floppy-version to work; if not all versions.
> 
> Even had to power-cycle, 'cause stop-a didn't work ?:-(

Tried tftp? I never expect actual floppies to work on ultrasparc,
especially considering that the root.bin is > 1440k.

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