Re: sun4c floppy boot images status
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:42:29AM -0500, Ari Heitner wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > Yeah, I think i said this (meant to if i didn't). > > > > I took the bootdisk I had been using for my 1+, tried it on my IPX, and it > > died with the funky read error. > > > > BTW i did use an i386 box to write the images > > Ok, then it sounds like we are having problems with only IPX and IPC. Does > anyone know anything about the floppy on this architecture? Are there > known issues? Note, that the sun4c images are using a non-compressed > kernel, so it isn't a matter of CPU/Mem. Plus it never reads the entire > image anyway. > > Ben I know I was never able to do anything with the floppy on my IPX (read 'cat /dev/fd0 | less', write 'cat /foo/bar > /dev/fd0', or format 'superformat') past performing the initial install (from Slink) and could never figure out any answers or suggestions. I usually would get about a screenful (~40 lines) of what I remember were mostly timing and sense key errors? -- Beiad Ian Q. Dalton
Re: sun4c floppy boot images status
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 11:42:29AM -0500, Ari Heitner wrote: > > 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 > > Yeah, I think i said this (meant to if i didn't). > > I took the bootdisk I had been using for my 1+, tried it on my IPX, and it > died with the funky read error. > > BTW i did use an i386 box to write the images Ok, then it sounds like we are having problems with only IPX and IPC. Does anyone know anything about the floppy on this architecture? Are there known issues? Note, that the sun4c images are using a non-compressed kernel, so it isn't a matter of CPU/Mem. Plus it never reads the entire image anyway. Ben -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Re: sun4c floppy boot images status
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 Yeah, I think i said this (meant to if i didn't). I took the bootdisk I had been using for my 1+, tried it on my IPX, and it died with the funky read error. BTW i did use an i386 box to write the images Ari
Re: sun4c floppy boot images status
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > 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? I have used both rawrite under WinNT and dd on my IPX with slink. -- Sabino Sabino Maggi ! tel: (+39) 011-3919-436 IEN "G. Ferraris"! fax: (+39) 011-3463-84 Strada delle Cacce, 91 ! e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-10135 Torino, Italy!
Re: sun4c floppy boot images status
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 ---
Re: sun4c floppy boot images status
> 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 Ben et. al., FWIW, I have a stack of 9 Sparc 1+ machines in the office (I think all but one will actually boot). They belong to the University of Delaware, but are currently not in use (I don't think they ever will be again); I've loaded one of them up with 64MB of ram. ... if you need something specific tested, please let me know and I'll try it out on one of them. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| --
Re: sun4c floppy boot images status
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... --Kurt
sun4c floppy boot images status
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 -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
