Help with Sparc
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I'm trying to install Debian Woody on a Sparc. I have successfully
gotten the cdrom to boot, but the boot ceases after a little while with
the following:
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Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
floppy0: WARNING disk change called early
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
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so... I did the dd creation of a 1.44M floppy with the only root.bin
that is on the CDROM image, put it in the drive, and...
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Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
floppy0: WARNING disk change called early
VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER
You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
mount -t ufs -o
ufstype=sun|sunx86|44bsd|old|nextstep|netxstep-cd|openstep ...
>>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is ufstype=old
ufs_read_super: bad magic number
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 02:00
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
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at which time I'm stuck hitting the power switch, because I have no idea
how to "Press L1-A" through minicom from my Debian laptop connected to
the console of the Sparc.
Suggestions?
Curt-
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