Re: Floppy on a Blade 100

To: Debian Sparc <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Floppy on a Blade 100
From: Martin <inkubus@interalpha.co.uk>
Date: 30 Apr 2003 20:23:12 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 1051730594.824.56.camel@raphael>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] rzq4r4fyiyk.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>
References: <[🔎] 200304281408.08061.michael.daum@nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de> <[🔎] 20030428134152.GF20083@phunnypharm.org> <[🔎] rzq4r4fyiyk.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>

> > Floppy has never been supported very well on ultrasparc-linux in general
> > It's not a Debian issue.
> The floppy on my works OK under Linux 2.4.19 (except for booting,
> which wasn't fixed by openboot upgrade I did, as I got the impression
> it should be).
AFAIK Sun have stopped supporting boot from floppy now.  Certainly the
manual for some boards say they can't boot from floppy.

Sweet Dreams,
 - Martin

-- 
Martin
inkubus@interalpha.co.uk
"Seasons change, things come to pass"

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References:
- Floppy on a Blade 100
  - From: Michael Daum <michael.daum@nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
- Re: Floppy on a Blade 100
  - From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
- Re: Floppy on a Blade 100
  - From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>

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