-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 05 June 2004 02:19, Joshua Kwan wrote: > Folks, > > Thanks to some surprising sleuth work by Boris Gontar we might have a > workaround for the dastardly initrd bug affecting certain sparc64 > machines. > > So, without further ado: > > * http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-06-04/cdrom-mini.iso > (4.7M) * http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/sparc/current/ > (whole shebang, if you're really confident)
Since I'm (still) unable (it times out) to access june.voxel.net (and I have misplaced the alternative URL, you sent me a few days ago), I went with the whole shebang :) > I'm hoping one of these works. If neither do, make sure silo.conf > includes 'rootfstype=ext2'. I could have screwed up. At least, the netinst image has append="cdrom devfs=mount rw ramdisk_size=8192 rootfstype=ext2" so it look good, I guess > Hoping to end this bug! It's not all over yet, sorry :( It gets a bit "further" (doesn't complain about the reiserfs stuff), however: [...] NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom Hardware: Sun Ultra 5 (UltraSPARC-IIi 333MHz (sun4u arch)). Thanks for all the effort put into this... - -- Frederik Dannemare | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://dannemare.net GnuPG key: search for 'dannemare' on http://pgpkeys.mit.edu Key fingerprint: BB7B 078A 0DBF 7663 180A F84A 2D25 FAD5 9C4E B5A8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAwcj8LSX61ZxOtagRAlx4AJ9t09+KpviKT6xrc/su50xk4fLpiwCgp07R cpasx0Fcg0/k4Nd8dl0gF/0= =u5mz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
