>Number:         19076
>Category:       port-sparc
>Synopsis:       NetBSD-1.6/sparc boot floppies bad label on Sparc IPX
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-sparc-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 16 06:32:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Robert Morgan
>Release:        NetBSD-1.6
>Organization:
>Environment:
na - failure occurs prior to installing 
>Description:
The boot floppy disk1.gz will not boot a Sparc-IPX. The 1.5.3 version does work. The error is bad magic number; disk label not found.

Tried with known good diskettes created from target machine. Sucess with 1.5.3 but failure with 1.6
>How-To-Repeat:
Make boot floppies according to installation instructions. Boot on a Sparc-IPX. Fails. Try again with 1.5.3 floppy images. Success.
>Fix:
Fall back to 1.5.3 floppy boot image
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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