Kurt Mosiejczuk writes: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Well, I finally got ahold of a sparc 1+ sun4c to test the floppy boot > > images, and to my dismay, they worked perfectly (both the sun4c and > > sun4cdm). Now, this isn't to say that something isn't wrong, just that I > > couldn't reproduce the problems that quite a few others have had. > > > > Question, what did everyone who had problems with the sun4c > > floppies use to write the floppy images? I used dd on my i386 > > linux box. Did others use dd from other OS's, or perhaps even > > rawrite under dos/windows? > > > > Ben > > Okay, I hadn't weighed in on this one because I hadn't tried it > several times yet, but... > > I wrote the disks on my i386 Debian box (2.2 frozen) using dd > > I saw the same error on my IPX that everyone else has seeen...
I had the same problem (also on an IPX) and I have used dd on a debian intel box (2.2 frozen) and I have tried twice on 2 different floppies (to make sure it does not come from the floppy) and I have even tried a new download of the image (sun4cdm). I have also tried the sun4c but only once. For your info, I have tried the debian-2.1r5 rescue disk too, and I got the same problem! (only that the error occurs at a different block number). But this is the resc1440-2.2.1.bin disk (I haven't tried the resc1440.bin disks -- too much time lost already) while my old rescue disk which works use a 2.0.35 kernel. So the problem may be related to the kernel version (or how it is compressed) -- PHAM Dinh Tuan | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laboratoire de Modelisation et Calcul | Tel: +33 4 76 51 44 23 BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9 (France) | Fax: +33 4 76 63 12 63 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
