Package: boot-floppies Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-25 Severity: normal Installing via tftpboot.img will stall at installation of libc6.1, as has been reported to debian-alpha several times, e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2001/debian-alpha-200110/msg00010.html. "rgh" told me on IRC:
<rgh> mellum: re "init q", when I had that problem ia64, it was because I forgot to boot with root=/dev/ram <rgh> mellum: without that, the kernel wants to do it's initrd magic, and runs /linuxrc before starting sbin/init. linuxrc is linked to init, so effectively init gets run as pid 12 (or something > 1, anyway) <rgh> linuxrc is run with a pid > 1, and the kernel expects that to return before it starts init as pid 1 <rgh> root=/dev/ram makes the kernel realise that the ramdisk si a real ramdisk, and not an initrd, so it disables the running of linuxrc So we need to find a way to force this parameter. Falk -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: alpha Kernel: Linux borkum 2.4.15-pre6 #2 Wed Nov 21 19:23:16 CET 2001 alpha Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]