On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Ashok Gopalakrishnan wrote: : Eric Delaunay wrote: : > : > Are you sure the root.bin file was written without errors on your floppy disk? : > Can you read back out then try to compare it or gunzip it to test its : > integrity? : > Another suggestion: have you tried new floppy medium? : > Hmm, how many memory your sparc1 has? : > : I tried with 3 floppy disks and they all behaved the same way. : As you suggested, I did read off the floppy and compared it with the : downloaded file. There were no errors. After gunzipping, there were still no : errors in comparison. : : My sparc1 has 4 banks of 4MB each (total 16MB). While detecting the hardware, : the memory is detected as follows: : available 13856K, kernel 1028K, data 1140K. : : I added 'append="mem=16m"' to the silo.conf file on the floppy and it still : detected only 13856K. Could this be a possible problem cause?
13856 + 1028 + 1140 = 16024. Not quite 16384, but close. The kernel does have a memory footprint ... : Also, before prompting for the root floppy, a warning message appears: : : floppy0 : Warning disk change called early : : Is this normal? It always happened last time I tried an install, but I admit it's been a while. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
