thanks for the information. I'm still battling a few issues, but the
most prominent problem on my way to netboot-install is that I can't seem
to get the apt/sources.list right for fetching sources (?):
You just have to build the debian-installer package on sparc64 using sbuild and
as a result,
Hi Adrian,
for the sake of visibility, here the response to the kernel-trouble:
Am 17.05.2021 um 10:23 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
Installing on two SunFire v215 went reasonably well
/- (apart from recurring Kernel Panics with "Unable to handle kernel paging request
in mna handler",
between
# otherwise set root as per value in device.map.
and
IFS="$old_ifs"
to make boot entries that do not try to re-set "root"
After this fight, I achieved my boot mirror setup on GRUB/SPARC :-)
I'll respond to the kernel-stuff separately.
Thanks!
- Robin
Am 17.05.20
Responding to myself:
Some progress:
I put additional informational output between all commands in the
suspect area in GRUBs util/setup.c and pinpointed the bug:
#ifdef GRUB_SETUP_SPARC64
{
grub_partition_t container = root_dev->disk->partition;
if (grub_strstr
Hi,
We're in the process of migrating Debian for sparc64 from SILO to GRUB
as GRUB upstream is adding support for modern SPARC machines thanks to
the work of Eric Snowberg from Oracle.
In order to make sure GRUB works on all machines supported by the sparc64
port, we need your help to test GRUB
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