Re: Can't boot install from floppies

[Antti Kantee <pooka%cs.hut.fi@localhost>]

On Mon Dec 06 2010 at 15:02:07 +0000, Julio Merino wrote:
> On 12/6/10 2:43 PM, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> >Julio Merino wrote:
> >>>non-working floppies available for download?
> >>I've put a copy in ftp.netbsd.org:~jmmv/i386/
> >Those fail to boot in my qemu, too, and the multivolume headers of your
> >boot{2,3}.fs look wrong:
> >
> >   $ od -c boot2.fs | head -1
> >   0000000    U   S  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
> >
> >Compare to a working boot2.fs:
> >
> >   $ od -c boot2.fs | head -1
> >   0000000   U   S   T   A   R   F   S       2  \n  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
> >
> >Looks like something is going wrong in
> >src/distrib/common/buildfloppies.sh in your build.
> Looks like dd is hosed:
> 
> $ echo 'USTARFS' >foo
> $ dd bs=8k conv=sync seek=1 skip=180 count=179 if=/dev/zero of=foo
> 179+0 records in
> 179+0 records out
> 1466368 bytes transferred in 0.003 secs (488789333 bytes/sec)
> $ od -c foo | head -n 1
> 0000000    U   S  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
> 
> Will investigate more soon.

Duh.  That was a silly typo (fixed it).  Thanks for tracking it down.

Time to add a tc for this ...

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