I'm looking through the archives- I'm naturally not using boot floppy
since the device is c0t5d0 anyway.

It's the bad magic number in the disk image. looks like, loking at the
archives, there isn't a working 1.6 sparc boot floppy set. I suppose
this is reasonable given how few people boot from floppy these days, but
shouldn't the option be removed entirely if it isn't going to work at
all?

(I'm in december archives looking at this now, I must assume it hasn't
been fixed.)

I've tried most everything to get this to work and was assuming that
there was an issue with the drive not being recognized as a floppy, but
it appears that the problem is that there are no 1.6 boot floppies that
work, only the ones that are broken?


(yes, I've addressed the drive correctly, otherwise I would not have bad
magic. yes, I've tried several floppies and 3 different downloads of the
.gz file. I have gunzipped the file. I have made the floppies on 3
different machines.)


Thanks-
Christof

Michael Lorenz <ml@rz.uni-potsdam.de> writes:

> On 03 Mar 2003 01:04:34 -0800, Koyote <koyote@koyote.cx> wrote:
> 
> > this is a test, but I do have a question.
> >
> > I'm trying to put netbsd on one of my sparcbooks (3GX) and can't seem to
> > boot from floppy. I assume this is becuase the scsi floppy is seen as a
> > scsi device and not a floppy?
> 
> You can boot from the floppy, just not with <boot floppy> - it should
> be something like sd@5/...
> Lots of mails on this topic should wait for you in the mailing list
> archive.
> 
> have fun
> Michael