Hi! See comments interleaved below...
Rick Malte Cornils wrote: > > Hi Rick, > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 01:37:21AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Errors like that are usually symptomatic of a dirty/dusty floppy drive. > > > > In particular, if the boot floppy is ejected, it means that the > > firmware got an error trying to read it, or couldn't find the magic > > numbers in the magic places that it was expecting from a real-live > > Macintosh boot floppy. > > The boot floppy is ejected after the miboot run (the little icon > with the penguin) had finished and few more seconds (enough time for > the kernel to boot and display the usual "insert root disk" message) > have passed. Floppy ejection at this point is normal and could also > mean that the kernel boots fine, only that the local console is > broken. In my experience, the floppy is *not* automatically ejected when the "insert root disk" message comes up. I always have to use the paper-clip trick to get the disk out so I can put the root disk in. (Again, in my experience) the only time the disk is automatically ejected is when the firmware has a problem reading it. This is with two machines -- a beige G3 mini-tower and a PowerMac 6500/225. > > > You should clean *both* the drive you will be writing the disk on, > > and the one you will be reading it on. > > That is the second attempt was made on completely unrelated systems > (both the PC generating the floppy and the Mac were different). > > Disk was made apparently without errors, and cmp showed no > differences. (I was more careful with that after your last mail > regarding that topic). That's a good sign. But (as you've seen) not conclusive -- the reading drive could be dirty (or out of calibration -- which is actually more serious because the only fix for that is to replace it. It would cost more to have it recalibrated than the drive's worth.) > > > Also, buy a box of new floppies. Don't use floppys that have been > > sitting around the house for a few years. They accumulate dust > > over time and the oxide deteriorates. > > Yeah, that was when I was shocked how (relatively) expensive floppies > had become now that almost no one uses them anymore. Sigh! So true... > > I will buy a cleaning set soon, I think you'll see a dramatic difference when you do. I couldn't get anything to work at all until I'd cleaned all the drives twice! > but I would appreciate it if someone > could test the current images (Holger?) on similar hardware. I'll test the latest daily-build boot floppies this weekend on both of my test machines and send you a report. > > Yours > -Malte > Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
