>> recently tried to install woody on my server here, and it didn't go too >> well: >> first it didn't find the kernel, but this you already know. secondly, it >> failed to find the / (of the cdrom, I assume) so I had to pass >> root=/dev/scd0 with the boot arguments. after that, it died with a >> message about unable to open console, and finally could not find init. > > You don't pass "root=...", you pass > "initrd=/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-sparc/current/images-1.44/root.bin"
Strange, the installation asked for 'pass a proper root=..', that was the first error I got. I've never needed to pass along arguments at boot before. That's why I thought something wasn't right in the configuration for sparc64 or for larger systems on the CD. Wbr Andreas Loong
