Re: No floppy drive in Debian-Sparc ???
Hi Greg,
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Greg wrote:
> someone mentioned that installing Debian on a Sparc leaves the floppy drive
> unusable. I know this is true in OpenBSD-sparc, is this true of
> Debian-sparc and in general of linux on sparcs? I am using a SunBlade 100
See [1]. Booting from floppies on the Ultra architecture is known to fail,
because of a bug in the OpenBoot prom. However, I have no trouble reading,
writing and mounting /dev/fd0 on an Ultra 10 running Linux.
Regards,
Pieter-Paul
[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-boo
t-from-floppies
Reply to: