Re: [suse-sparc] Problems installing SUSE 7.3 on E450

From: Daniel E. Spisak (dspisak@nonmundane.org)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 12:53:09 PST

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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:53:09 -0800
From: "Daniel E. Spisak" <dspisak@nonmundane.org>
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Problems installing SUSE 7.3 on E450

    At 09:18 PM 12/11/2001 +0100, Thorsten Hahn wrote:
    >Hi Daniel,
    >
    > > booting the kernel and it gets stuck at the "Searching for infofile". If
    >I ...
    >
    >I had the same problem. Having no bootable CD-Rom and starting from Floppy
    >with CD 1 in the CD-Rom => "Searching ...."
    >
    >Without CD 1 => no Problem!
    >
    >Perhaps worth a try on your E450.
    >
    >Thorsten

    Hmm, ok I tried making a boot/root floppy off of CD1 (note to SUSE: your
    rawrite exe doesn't work under Windows XP at all!) after discovering the
    rawrite.exe and rawrite3.com files refused to see the bootdisk32 and
    rootdisk32 files no matter how I tried to tell it the location of the file.
    So to save everyone in my situation from this mess use this Windows based
    version of Rawrite:

    http://people.debian.org/~dwhedon/rawwritewin/rwwrtwin.zip

    Now with that taken cared of I poped the boot floppy into the floppy,
    Stop-A, "boot floppy" result?

    "Can't open boot device"

    Which is what I expected since this is a 64-bit system and thus has the
    dumb PROM bug in it.

    What do I do next?

    -Dan 

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