Re: SPARC 2 floppy boot fails

1998-07-16 Thread Anders Hammarquist
>I have this exact problem--with the added fact that my SCSI device >does not seem to be supported by the current netboot image. I would be >willing to help solve these problems if I could get my Sparc IPX working >either way. I could try to set up cross-compilation from my i586 system, >but I as

Re: SPARC 2 floppy boot fails

1998-07-16 Thread Adam Haberlach
>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). tells me that the image is called >linux (so it can read silo.conf, I guess). So, I boot 'linux', and I get: > >bo

Re: SPARC 2 floppy boot fails

1998-07-16 Thread Adam Haberlach
>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). tells me that the image is called >linux (so it can read silo.conf, I guess). So, I boot 'linux', and I get: > >bo

SPARC 2 floppy boot fails

1998-07-16 Thread Jules Bean
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