On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:54:38PM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
  | On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 01:38:41AM -0800, beaker wrote:
  |   | >C Could you try on recent sparc snapshot (either -current or 1.6_STABLE)
  |   | from
  |   | > ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily and tell us if the problem remains
  |   | > with that floppies?
  |   | >
  |   | Per the suggestion, I tried again with the sparc boot floppy images
  |   | found at
  |   | "ftp://releng.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-1-6/
  |   | 200212090000/sparc/installation"
  |   | 
  |   | Still no luck - these too fail with the following error:
  |   | ---
  |   | ok boot floppy
  |   | 
  |   | Bad magic number in disk label
  |   | Can't open Sun disk label package
  |   | Can't open boot device
  |   | 
  |   | ok
  |   | ---
  |   | Is there a simple way to just make my own boot floppies?
  | 
  | If you have a sparc system, in /usr/src/ do a "make release" (or in 
  | /usr/src/distrib run "make").
  | 
  | It's possible that there is something in the sparc floppy cross-build
  | that doesn't like being cross-built on an i386...

Actually, the problem is because the sparc floppies don't have valid
Sun disklabels.  I've committed a fix in -current for this, and
request pullups for all of the associated changes.

Luke.