• Bug#265442: Debian Installer RC 1 on SPARC

    From Peter Van Loock@1:229/2 to All on Fri Aug 13 10:40:18 2004
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot
    From: [email protected]

    Package: installation-reports

    Debian-installer-version: Release Candidate 1
    uname -a: N/A
    Date: Fri Aug 13 10:09:14 CEST 2004
    Method: Booted from CD

    Machine: Sun SparcStation 2
    Processor: ?
    Memory: 32 MB
    Root Device: SCSI, /dev/sda
    Root Size/partition table: N/A
    Output of lspci: N/A

    Base System Installation Checklist:

    Initial boot worked: [E]
    Configure network HW: [ ]
    Config network: [ ]
    Detect CD: [ ]
    Load installer modules: [ ]
    Detect hard drives: [ ]
    Partition hard drives: [ ]
    Create file systems: [ ]
    Mount partitions: [ ]
    Install base system: [ ]
    Install boot loader: [ ]
    Reboot: [ ]
    [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

    Comments/Problems:

    The last lines on the screen contained a few 'Unimplemented SPARC system call 188' messages.
    Final messages are:

    Busybox v1.00-pre10 (Debian 20040623-1) multi-call binary

    Usage: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST

    Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init

    Press L1-A to return to the boot prom


    I tried to install without a framebuffer (debian-installer/framebuffer=false) but ended with the same result.
    Finally, I attached a serial console and booted with the option
    'console=ttya'.
    Everything up to 'Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed' is perfectly readable, but the next messages are somehow garbled up. But it was still readable enough to see that exactly the same thing had happened: kernel
    panic.




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