On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tcpdump'ed the period while it is waiting, and the SPARC is doing lots > > of ACK commands, clearly waiting for something. Believing that redhat's > > tftp was broken, I first updated it, and secondly copied across my debian > > one, but these didn't fix it. > > > > Eventually, on a whim, I noticed that the tftpboot.img is a odd-number of > > bytes long. I used dd to pad it with zeros to the nearest 4-byte > > boundary, and tried again. It works! So this appears to be some > > alignment issue with the SPARC's tftp code. > > Can you explain more what you are doing. I may try it too.
There is probably a neater way, but I did dd bs=2516356 if=tftpboot.img of=tftpboot.img.new conv=sync > > > Could this same thing be the problem with the floppies? Are SS2's more > > fussy about alignment? > > I have been able to boot into linux with the debian floppies on the > sparc IPC. But I got into another problem: the keybord is repeating > too fast (actually the delay before repeating is so short). This is > vary annoying because it is quite hard to enter a passwd correctly to > login. Furthermore the same problem occure under X and xset does not > seem to have any effect on the keyboard repeat. I have tried to issue > "xset r off" to turn of keyboard repeating but to no avail. I have > post the problem to this news group but never get a solution. For this > reason, I would like very much to install the redhat sparc linux to > see if it works better. It's *very* quiet in here at the moment... I guess the debian-sparc guys are busy at the moment. So, if you're listening, I'm happy to help out... :-) Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
