From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:36:30 -0800 Message-ID: <FMEFIFGDHJHAIONNFKMFIEPKCDAA.Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Install problems (Sparc-5)
Ok, then, which image file do you use to boot 32-bit SPARCs from floppy? I get
the same error messages re invalid disk labels etc. on my IPX - it would be nice
if the proper image file were actually identified somewhere. I tried several of
the more obvious ones unsuccessfully, then gave up and installed RedHat
temporarily; building their boot floppy worked fine.
Apart from the fact that linuxconf dumps core whenever it is run, I can never
FIND anything in the RedHat distribution, and what I do find inevitably gets
overwritten on the next boot, so I'd like to get back to SuSE...
KeS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thorsten Kukuk [mailto:kukuk@suse.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 01:24
> To: Joshua Uziel
> Cc: root; Bryce Letcher; suse-sparc@suse.com
> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Install problems (Sparc-5)
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 21, Joshua Uziel wrote:
>
> > * root <520041204488-0001@t-online.de> [001121 01:07]:
> > > > Yep, the floppy boot image is broken... just boot off of cd or network
> > > > for now.
> > >
> > > SuSE for SPARC supports no booting from floppy. I have this information
> > > from Thorsten Kukuk.
> >
> > Well, not supported until one of us fixes it. :)
>
> The answer was different, we spoke about UltraSPARCs.
>
> SuSE Linux for SPARC does not support booting from floppy on
> UltraSPARC machines. Most of the UltraSPARCs are not able to boot
> from floppy (ask Dave Miller about the openprom bug), and for the
> others the kernel is to big to fit in a usefull configuraton on disk.
>
> Thorsten
>
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> cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
>
>
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