Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > > > >At the Sparc boot prompt, I do a 'b floppy', the floppy > > > >fires-up, spells out 'SILO' one char at a time and then > > > >says: > > > > > > > >Fatal error: Cannot read partition > > > >Illegal or malformed device name > > > >Fatal error: Cannot read partition > > > >Fatal error: Cannot read partition > > > >Image not found.... try again > > I know that some sparc guys (was that Ben Collins?) said that floppy > booting can be flakey. > > > When you've bootet you get into some programm compairable > > to the BIOS setup utility of PCs offering you a prompt, by holding > > down the <Stop> -key in the left upper corner of your keyboard > > (sorry if I'm boring some of you, but I can imagine that some may > > still haven't noticed this) and typing <a>. The command 'printenv' > > shows you a list of environmental variables, with some of them > > affecting the boot process. The variable indicating the device to > > boot from is correct as SILO is starting, but maybe some other > > entry prevents it from serving it's purpose. > > We do talk about this stuff in the Installation Manual. > > > Try out some values, and if that doesn't work, download the images > > again, maybe the part containing the begin of the kernel-image is > > broken. > > I'm not sure -- it almost seems like bad partitioning on the Rescue > disk? Or just the flakey floppy reading code on the BIOS? > > Should I just close this bug? Any other thoughts? >
As the problem is mainly reported by owners of IPXs i also think that it's a problem of slow hardware. On my LX it all works fine dalvarez
