Subject: Re: boot error
To: Todd Cohen <cohentl@lizard.price.clarkson.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/02/2000 18:39:52
Can you try a different disk - do you have any other sparc boxes?
David/absolute
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Todd Cohen wrote:
> 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): \
>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> 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):
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------
> > > 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
> > > ---------------------------------------------------
> > >
> >
> >
>
>