Subject: Re: floppy non functional on sparc10?
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Ken Wellsch <kwellsch@tampabay.rr.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/11/2001 14:10:07
On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:04:40PM +0300, Tomi Nylund wrote:
>
> This is what happened:
>
> 1) >boot floppy
> 2) prom loads the first floppy
> 3) installer asks for the second floppy
> 4) problems arise, when trying to read the floppy
>
> eject from prom worked normally. When loading the installation tools
> from a cd-rom, all worked well.
I've seen the same thing also, over the past 6 months I've tried,
on an SS2, LX, SS4 and SS20. Things go bad when switching to the
second floppy and the whole process punts to the PROM.
-- Ken