-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Okay, I moved a floppy drive from the SS2 to the SS10 and the SS10 booted. The SS2 does not boot with the same disk drive. Warren On Friday 09 November 2001 10:11 am, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Warren Turkal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On the 2, it gets to SILO. When you press enter to start the > > > > install, it proceeds to uncompress the kernel. It then fails > > > > with something like IDPROM: failed reading format. The 10 > > > > claims that it cannot find a sun boot label or something like > > > > that and does not even get to SILO. I tried this on two > > > > different sparc2's and one sparc10. One Sparc2 had 32 mb RAM, > > > > and the other has 64 mb RAM. I don't know about the sparc10. > > > > > > Which image were you using? I believe you're supposed to use the > > > sun4cdm images, but the documentation should make that clear. > > > > I used sun4cdm images. Both woody and potato disks failed. > > Interestingly, I confirmed that other people with ss10 are able to > use the boot-system sucessfully. > > Can anyone here on the debian-sparc list offer help to this user, and > what, if anything, we can do in the boot-floppies sources to fix this > problem (or at least document it) ? > > If you need more info, see bug 118669.
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