> > > > > It looks like the regression has been introduced sometime between > > 4th-8th November: > > > > - Works, boots to the Debian installer > > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/sparc/20141104-00:20/mini.iso > > > > - Doesn't work, crashes as above > > http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/sparc/20141108-00:22/mini.iso > > > > Does any know what has changed that could have caused this regression? > > Panic over. > > It seems that the latest build has increased the memory requirement > above QEMU's 128MB built-in default. Increasing the RAM to 256MB seems > to get things going again: > > $ ./qemu-system-sparc64 -m 256 -cdrom > /home/build/src/qemu/image/sparc64/mini.iso -boot d -nographic > > I guess everyone has more RAM in their SPARC hardware these days? >
One virtue of the SPARC machines is that they have really high max RAM capacity relative to their time. I haven't owned a SPARC machine with less than 1GB. Patrick
