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): \
> 
> 
> 
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> "Sometimes crazy things happen in circuits." - Muku, 1999
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> 
> 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
> > > ---------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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