Steve Dunham wrote: > Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've been able to boot my Ultra5 using the tftp boot image from > > lix.polytechnique.fr:/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/exp/disks-sparc/990301/ > > > I haven't tried the floppy images; so far, no luck with making floppies > > from x86/Linux (using blocksizes of 1024 and 512, fdformatting on the > > sparc or in linux). Any clues would be helpful, this probably needs > > to be added to the documentation. > > I have some information at: > > http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham/debian/sparc/install.html > > that can be added to the documentation. > > According to jj, Sun says that the Ultra5 does not have floppy booting > support. (It looks like it does, but there is some code missing from > the ROM.) I personally haven't gotten the floppy drive to work on my > machine after booting the kernel either. > > I also can't get anything to boot on an Ultra1 (neither floppies that > I make nor the UltraPenguin floppies). I've heard reports to the > contrary on this list, but I don't think they were using Eric's > floppies. (Eric you have to do "silo -u" to make Ultra floppies - > given my experience with floppies, I'm not sure if it's worth the > trouble to fix it.)
Argh :( I'm afraid it's too late for slink now to change anything but the doc in bootdisks. Hopefully one can install over the network at least :-)) Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
