Package: installation-reports Severity: normal
So I booted: http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/2005-07-26/sparc64/netboot/boot.img and http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/2005-07-26/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img They were booted on a Sun Blade 100 using netboot, I added the ramdisk_size=9000 to the prompt to avoid bug 319788. At this point I notice the following: The 2.4 images boots the installer nicely, it shows the language selection splashscreen as expected. The problem occurs when booting the 2.6 kernel. When it is booted the border (the border is the black line in the gray area) of the selection dialog is gone, and it looks like the characters are shifted one position to the right. When changing a selection English looks like EEnglish (for example). This could be related to bug 282781 or 296735. The difference is that the machine stays responsive and you could finish the installation this way, but it looks ugly. A solution to this problem is the following. Press ctrl+f1, activate the shell, execute 'debian-installer', the installer starts and the problem is gone. When you switch between tty0 and tty1 you can clearly see that everything is shifted one (or multiple characters) to the left (the number of characters is equal to the number of character that make up the border, meaning the lower line is fully gone, the body is shifted one to the left and the title is left aligned instead of centered). To summarize: When booting a 2.6 kernel, the installer that appears on the first console is fscked up, as is each installer launched on that console. Especially that characers that make up the border are missing. On the second console everything looks/works just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]