Hello,

i tried booting from floppy on a SPARC10 with no success.
The problem occures after ejecting the first one - the
things went fine so far - then i received the following
error message:

Floppy device to load the installation utilities from [/dev/rfd0a]:
Extracting installation utilities...
fd0a: hard error reading fsbn 0
fd0: controller status: state 17 (st0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,drv_chck> cyl
0)
fd0a: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-127
fd0: controller status: state 17 (st0 70<abnrml,seek_cmplt,drv_chck> cyl
0)
tar: End of archive volume 1 reached

ATTENTION! tar archive volume change required.
Ready for archive volume: 1
Input archive name or "." to quit tar.
Archive name >


I've first formatted the floppies with 'fdformat -f 1440 fd0' under
FreeBSD and do a dd as described in the Install primer.

   # dd if=disk1 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=36k

   # dd if=disk2 of=/dev/rfd0a bs=36k conv=sync

What i am doing wrong?
The same set of install floppies works on SPARC5-110.



Kind Regards

Sebastian