Hi there! Be gentle with me - I'm new to the debian-sparc effort..
I have just got hold of two Sparc 2s, and have (of course!) decided to try putting debian on them. I'm using the newest boot-disks from a debian mirror. One of the sparcs appears to have a buggered floppy drive (it won't boot off any disks, and fails its own floppy self-test). The other, however, will begin to boot. Specifically, it will load SILO, and then display the 'boot:' prompt (complaining about my boot-file variable, which is fair enough). <TAB> tells me that the image is called linux (so it can read silo.conf, I guess). So, I boot 'linux', and I get: boot: linux Read error on block 50 Cannot find /linux (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) Image not found... try again Now, I would assume that the floppy was buggered. But I have rewritten the floppy (including onto brand-new disks) and the problem persists. I would then assume that the floppy drive was damaged (since this is quite an old machine) - except that by browsing through the list archives, I see that other people have had exactly the same problem (specifically on block 50). It was mentioned that this might be a ROM problem - my ROM version is 2.4. This is not actually going to cause me all that much problem, since I will net-boot and net-install these machines when my transceivers arrive for them. However, it occurs to me that this may be a debian boot-disk problem - and if it is, I'm happy to help fix it - I can program, and I'm even a debian developer. Regards, Jules /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
