Re: sparc boot floppy

[Wokness <wokness_(_at_)_yahoo_(_dot_)_com>]

Hi,
  I was having simmilar problems with installing
OpenBSD on my SPARCstation 2. My problem ending up
being the machine I was making the image on (Win2K) it
eather had a bad floppy drive (I am pretty sure this
is the problem) or NTRW.EXE had some problems. I fixed
the problem by going to another OpenBSD box (any other
computer, preferablly UNIX box would work) and making
a boot floppy on it, and everything worked fine.


Hope this helps,
Wokness.

PS- You might want to plug your keyboard in, I don't
know how you are going to install with out a keyboard.
:)


--- Jake Luck <openbsd_(_at_)_10k_(_dot_)_org> wrote:
> 
> While the CDROM boots fine, my sparc4 doesn't seem
> to like the sept25
> current floppy28.fs. I also tried the 2.7 distro
> disk image. same result.
> Did I miss something? Thanks.
> 
> -----------------------------------
> ok boot floppy bsd 
> Resetting ... 
> 
> SPARCstation 4, No Keyboard
> ROM Rev. 2.20, 88 MB memory installed, Serial
> #7554774.
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:75:46:68, Host ID: 80714628.
> 
> 
> 
> Rebooting with command: floppy bsd                  
>                  
> Boot device: /obio/SUNW,fdtwo  File and args: bsd
> bootxx: short read
> Program terminated
> Type  help  for more information
> ok
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------
> 
> jake
> 
> 
> 


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