Bug#248963: Sarge sparc netinstall rc2 still fails on Sparc IPX

2004-11-24 Thread Jurij Smakov
Tjena Mats,
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Magnus Hyllander wrote:
I just downloaded the new Sarge rc2 sarge-sparc-netinst.iso and tried to 
install. The install still fails. Now I do not get any error message, instead 
the kernel boot hangs efter the messages:

Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
After these messages init normaly should be started off the initrd. Since 
I do not have access to any sun4c hardware, could you try a couple of 
things:

1. Append a boot argument 'init=/bin/sh' (without the quotes). This should 
normally just give you a shell prompt in the end of the boot.

2. If you have a working Linux installation on this machine, could you try 
running the RC2 busybox binary on it? This binary provides the shell and a 
bunch of other utilities for initrd. You can either extract it from the 
initrd image on RC2 CD by mounting it, or download it from
http://www.wooyd.org/bug_sun4c/. Try something like 'busybox ls' or 
'busybox sh' to see if it works.

Best regards,
Jurij Smakov[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#248963: Sarge sparc netinstall rc2 still fails on Sparc IPX

2004-11-23 Thread Magnus Hyllander
I just downloaded the new Sarge rc2 sarge-sparc-netinst.iso and tried to 
install. The install still fails. Now I do not get any error message, 
instead the kernel boot hangs efter the messages:

Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
After this nothing more happens. I have experimented (just in case) with 
different ramdisk sizes, but this doesn't help (8192 too small, 16384 
boot hangs).

/Magnus
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