Re: [suse-sparc] Unable to create boot floppy

From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 00:33:29 PDT

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    Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 09:33:29 +0200
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Message-ID: <20010404093329.A29868@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Unable to create boot floppy

    On Tue, Apr 03, Walter Williams wrote:

    > Greetings
    >
    > I have been trying to create a boot floppy to
    > start the Linux install from. It does not matter
    > which OS I format the disk under, whether ext2
    > or DOS; if I use DOS(windows) rawrite, or Linux
    > diskdump(on my Linux PC); I get the same message
    > from openboot:
    >
    > Bad magic number in disk label
    > Can't open Sun disk label package
    > Can't open boot device
    >
    > What am I doing wrong?

    Please try the update from ftp.suse.com or any mirror
    in the update/7.1/disks directory.

    > If I try to load from a CD it gets to the point
    > where it starts loading packages and cruds out.
    > Its like the SCSI bus dies, theres nothing there.

    Looks like the termination of the SCSI bus is not correct.
    The Linux driver has some problems with this.
    For my SPARCstation1 I need an extra terminator for the
    external connector, even if I don't have external drives.

      Thorsten 

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