Subject: Re: boot error
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Cohen <cohentl@lizard.price.clarkson.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/01/2000 17:34:40
Ok, here's a listing... (SPARCstation 2, all tried with the same floppy
disk) 

boot-141.fs:	works

boot-14L.fs:	fails
	Boot device: /fd   File and args: netbsd                        
	>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.9                         
	>> (pk@flambard, Tue Oct 19 11:10:24 MEST 1999)                      
	Booting netbsd                                                       
	1176036+1776112read text                                               

	device[/fd@1,f7200000:a] ("halt" to halt): 

boot-14P.fs:	fails
	Boot device: /fd   File and args: netbsd          
	>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.9        
	>> (toddpw@threegx.toddpw.net, Fri Dec 24 02:32:28 PST 1999)  
	Booting netbsd                         
	1207900read section headers            
                                                                                
	device[/fd@1,f7200000:a] ("halt" to halt): \



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On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	Could you try a 1.4.1 floppy just to confirm?
> 
> 		David/absolute
> 
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Todd Cohen wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 	I just got myself a sparcstation 2 and I'm trying to install
> > NetBSD on it. I'm trying the December snapshot.. I get this on boot.. can
> > anybody help me out here?
> > 
> > ok boot floppy                                                                  
> >                                                                                 
> > SPARCstation 2, No Keyboard                                                     
> > ROM Rev. 2.9, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #4363949.                          
> > Ethernet address 8:0:20:11:61:2e, Host ID: 554296ad.                            
> >                                                                                 
> >                                                                                 
> > Rebooting with command: floppy                                                  
> > Boot device: /fd   File and args: netbsd                                        
> > >> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.9                                    
> > >> (toddpw@threegx.toddpw.net, Fri Dec 24 02:32:28 PST 1999)                    
> > Booting netbsd                                                                  
> > 1207900read section headers                                                     
> >                                                                                 
> > device[/fd@1,f7200000:a] ("halt" to halt): 
> > 
> > 
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> > http://www.clarkson.edu/~cohentl
> > "Sometimes crazy things happen in circuits." - Muku, 1999
> > "The answers to lifes problems aren't at the bottom of bottles, they're on
> >  TV" - Homer J. Simpson
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> > 
> 
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