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Darren Benham (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 4 Nov 1999 15:39:38 +0000 Received: (qmail 25136 invoked from network); 4 Nov 1999 15:39:36 -0000 Received: from homity-pie.lmu.ac.uk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 4 Nov 1999 15:39:36 -0000 Received: from (homity-pie) [160.9.128.1] (nigel) by homity-pie.lmu.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 11jP0F-00062l-00; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:40:43 +0000 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:40:43 +0000 (GMT) From: "Nigel R. Armfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: nigel@homity-pie Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Boot problems Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.991104152746.25586K-100000@homity-pie> Return-Receipt-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acknowledge-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Package: boot-floppies Version: sparc 2.1 Hi, I'm sorry to bother you with this problem, but I cannot find answers elsewhere and I'm reaching the limits of my patience. I have not had any success at all booting a SPARC (IPX) from any of the rescue boot images that I have tried. I have tried a number of different floppies, formatted them and written them a number of times but all with the same result. At the Sparc boot prompt, I do a 'b floppy', the floppy fires-up, spells out 'SILO' one char at a time and then says: Fatal error: Cannot read partition Illegal or malformed device name Fatal error: Cannot read partition Fatal error: Cannot read partition Image not found.... try again Any pointers in the right direction would be very gratefully received - apologies if I haven't read the doc properly. Best wishes, Nigel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Nigel R. Armfield M.Sc, MIEEE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Communications Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computing and Communication Services Learning and Information Services Leeds Metropolitan University Voice: +44 113 283 3119 LEEDS LS1 3HE Fax: +44 113 283 5962 UK --------------------------------------- Received: (at 49172-done) by bugs.debian.org; 21 Nov 2000 05:25:23 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 20 23:25:23 2000 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from (burrito.onshore.com) [64.22.101.122] (postfix) by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 13y5vm-0004F0-00; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:25:22 -0600 Received: from arroz.fake (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by burrito.onshore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB6F93802; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:26:01 -0500 (EST) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bugs closed in boot-floppies 2.2.18 From: Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 21 Nov 2000 00:26:01 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lines: 72 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The bug you filed against the boot-floppies package has been closed in the most recent boot-floppies, 2.2.18, now in Potato (for i386 anyhow). The changelog for that version is included. Please let us know if you still have the problem, even in the newest version. Thank you for helping Debian build a better installation systenm. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> boot-floppies (2.2.18) stable; urgency=low . * build with Debian 2.2r1 plus updates (closes: Bug#77459) * Adam Di Carlo: - i386 and sparc use kernel 2.2.18pre21 (closes: Bug#77425) - Makefiles: clean is a bit cleaner - release.sh (i386): also put kernel configs in TOP/<flavor> (hey, it's a small file); don't leave stranded release/kernel-config file, put it in the bf-common tarball - rootdisk.sh: add pcd0 device mknod (closes: Bug#74322), which MAKEDEV doesn't know about; add gscd and cm206cd devices; remove some hacks on device creation due to bugs fixed in MAKEDEV - dbootstrap: quiet bootarg makes more things shut up; disable the check for root filesystem being on extended partition while LILO is going on the MBR, because LILO supports this now (closes: Bug#64823); add new fullscreen_execlog utility function - debian/control: add Build-Depends and Build-Depends-Indep (closes: Bug#70387); remove required package from depends - documentation: fix links to dselect-beginner (closes: Bug#72870); add a section in the first chapter talking about where to get Debian (closes: Bug#71532); other corrections (closes: Bug#70871); fix linux history link (closes: Bug#76408); enable Polish and Russian documentation now that newer debiandoc-sgml is in Potato; give example TFTP file name on SPARC (closes: Bug#40775); mention problems with booting from IPX (closes: Bug#49172); when reporting bugs on i386, you must report the flavor * Josip Rodin: - documentation: update non-US package numbers * Eric VanBuggenhaut: French updates * Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: - Polish updates - documentation/doc-check script added to help translators stay up-to-date - LANGUAGE_CHOOSER integration (closes: Bug#31865) detailed descriptions follow . NOTE: i18n integration is not quite complete, but it is very very close; it has specifically been kept out of the mainline version due to some bugs which are expected to be fixed shortly . - moved bf-utf from its module to utilities, modified relevant files accordingly - Makefile: added conditional build time depends on libpng2-dev and libpopt-dev - rootdisk.sh: uses LANGUAGE_CHOOSER for compact and idepci i386 flavors, in which case it: uses more blocks, adds fb0 ptyp ptyq ptyr ptys devices, includes a font for bterm, includes a wrapper 'udbootstrap' and modifies inittab accordingly, includes libutf8_plug.so, bterm, all messages files, lc-enabled dbootstrap removed redundand '$' from awk invocations - utilities/bogl/Makefile: added bterm's font reduction to build process - utilitise/dbootstrap/Makefile: added rules necessary for creation of 'dbootstrap-lc' - a language-chooser enabled dbootstrap, added configure runs to generation of libnewt and libslang - utilities/dbootstrap/po/Makefile: build both normal and utf messages files by default - added removal of necessary files to clean rules * Gleydson Mazioli da Silva: Portuguese updates -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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