Re: Bug#49172: dalvarez: Re: [Nigel R. Armfield N.R.Armfield@lmu.ac.uk] Bug#49172: Boot problems
after booting debian says that the fdd of my LX is a post-1993-model. with this i never had errors on PROM-Level but the recently described I/O-port already in use-message is output sometimes when i try to mount the device (not reproduceable). maybe the IPX- series whose owners reported the error with the boot-disks has an older drive, as AFAIK it was released earlier, which doesn't work with the disks. it is possible that the whole problem turns out to be an incompatibility with an older fdd-model. then maybe a change of the disk-image to accomplish the older standart solves it, assuming that the post 1993-drive is backwards compatible. IPX-users should check the model-# of the fdd _ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#49172: dalvarez: Re: [Nigel R. Armfield N.R.Armfield@lmu.ac.uk] Bug#49172: Boot problems
Yeah -- this is looking more and more like a Linux FD driver / kernel problem. Could someone please raise the issue on the sparc/kernel lists? .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Re: Bug#49172: dalvarez: Re: [Nigel R. Armfield N.R.Armfield@lmu.ac.uk] Bug#49172: Boot problems
Dear all, Thanks for all of your comments - I struggled on for a little longer but couldn't seem to make it perform any differently however I tried. I suspect that it's simply not going to work. I managed to netboot it fine, mounted an NFS partition and did the rest from there. That's fine while I'm at work and connected to a fast network - at home I'd be in trouble! While I'm here, may I ask if there is a tar archive of the binary-sparc hierarchy (I can't spot one) (or whether someone could kindly make me one ?). I don't like the idea of FTPing each individual directory over. Thanks again for your help. Nigel -- On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 09:49:43PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: 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? Eric Delunay said that sun4c's seem to have a problem with booting the compressed images, presumably because of the slow hardware (uncompressing on the fly while reading the floppy is very IO intensive). I don't think this is something we can solve, other than by doing what we already are. The only solution I know of is a CD or net install. Ben
Re: Bug#49172: dalvarez: Re: [Nigel R. Armfield N.R.Armfield@lmu.ac.uk] Bug#49172: Boot problems
Thanks for all of your comments - I struggled on for a little longer but couldn't seem to make it perform any differently however I tried. I suspect that it's simply not going to work. I managed to netboot it fine, mounted an NFS partition and did the rest from there. That's fine while I'm at work and connected to a fast network - at home I'd be in trouble! Well that's good you were able to work around. Does RedHat have boot-floppies that work for your model of sparc? Do they work? If so, perhaps we can look into how they fix things and see if we can adapt that While I'm here, may I ask if there is a tar archive of the binary-sparc hierarchy (I can't spot one) (or whether someone could kindly make me one ?). I don't like the idea of FTPing each individual directory over. Huh? For the packages? You should check out 'apt-get'. .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
[Nigel R. Armfield N.R.Armfield@lmu.ac.uk] Bug#49172: Boot problems
This sounds familiar -- anyone have a pointer here? ---BeginMessage--- Package: boot-floppies Version: sparc Hi, I'm sorry to bother you with this problem, but I cannot find answers elsewhere and I'm reaching the limits of my patience. I have not had any success at all booting a SPARC (IPX) from any of the rescue boot images that I have tried. I have tried a number of different floppies, formatted them and written them a number of times but all with the same result. 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 Any pointers in the right direction would be very gratefully received - apologies if I haven't read the doc properly. Best wishes, Nigel --- Nigel R. Armfield M.Sc, MIEEE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing and Communication Services Learning and Information Services Leeds Metropolitan University Voice: +44 113 283 3119 LEEDS LS1 3HE Fax: +44 113 283 5962 UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message--- -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Re: [Nigel R. Armfield N.R.Armfield@lmu.ac.uk] Bug#49172: Boot problems
Subject: Bug#49172: Boot problems Resent-Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 15:48:01 GMT Resent-From: Nigel R. Armfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org Resent-CC: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:40:43 + (GMT) From: Nigel R. Armfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Package: boot-floppies Version: sparc I'm sorry to bother you with this problem, but I cannot find answers elsewhere and I'm reaching the limits of my patience. I have not had any success at all booting a SPARC (IPX) from any of the rescue boot images that I have tried. I have tried a number of different floppies, formatted them and written them a number of times but all with the same result. 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 Any pointers in the right direction would be very gratefully received - apologies if I haven't read the doc properly I have Debian/Linux 2.1 running (relatively) stable on the slightly different SparcStation LX, same processor but more peripherals or s.th, and have had success booting these disks at once. 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. 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. Thats all I can tell you with the information you supplied. Any further explanations wouldn't be of public interest anyway. If it all doesn't help, contact me via mail and supply additional information. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (still unemployed)
Re: [Nigel R. Armfield N.R.Armfield@lmu.ac.uk] Bug#49172: Boot problems
On 6 Nov 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: This sounds familiar -- anyone have a pointer here? I'm not sure. I've successfully installed an IPX using floppy using the 2.0.3x sparc disk images.. If need be I could read my disks and let you FTP them. I no longer have access to the machine I wrote them on, though, or I could send them to you from there. -- Ferret no baka
