On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 01:38:12AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
>
> Chris, can you get documentation bugs 106218 and and 81029 please?
Attached is a doc patch to close 106218.
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Index: rescue-boot.sgml
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RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/documentation/en/rescue-boot.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.64
diff -u -r1.64 rescue-boot.sgml
--- rescue-boot.sgml 2001/10/14 23:03:34 1.64
+++ rescue-boot.sgml 2001/10/19 04:10:11
@@ -282,11 +282,21 @@
<![ %sparc [
<p>
-Be warned that the Sun4u (ultra) architecture do not seem to support
-floppy booting. Furthermore, a number of Sun4c models (such as the IPX)
-do not support the compressed images found on the disks, so also are
-not supported. ]]>
+Be warned that the newer Sun4u (ultra) architecture does not support
+floppy booting. Furthermore, a number of Sun4c models (such as the
+IPX) do not support the compressed images found on the disks, so also
+are not supported.
+<p>
+Several Sparcs (e.g. Ultra 10) have an OBP bug that prevents them from
+booting (instead of not supporting booting at all). The appropriate
+OBP update can be downloaded as product ID 106121 from
+<url id="http://sunsolve.sun.com";>.
+<p>
+To boot from floppy on a Sparc, use <tt>Stop-A -> OpenBoot: "boot
+floppy"</tt>.
+ ]]>
+
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