On Sun, 2018-05-13 at 19:31 +0200, Frans van Berckel wrote: > Bingo. If I compare sparc/netboot.cfg and sparc64/netboot.cfg from > build/config within the debian-installer_20171204, I've got ... > > - TEMP_INITRD_XZ = $(TEMP)/initrd.xz > > - $(TEMP_INITRD_XZ): $(TEMP_INITRD) > - # xz options ensure that kernel's decoder can handle the > image. > - zcat $(TEMP_INITRD) | xz --check=crc32 --lzma2=dict=512KiB > > > $(TEMP_INITRD_XZ) > > So I am almost sure initrd for sparc64 isn't zipped at all. That will > help. ;-) I don't know where to find debian-installer for ports > within git. But I just downloaded the sources from deb ... > > http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-installer/
Okay, it's still zipped, true. ;-) But not compressed by xz && lzma2. All debian-installer sources are moved over to salsa, I see ... https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer Thanks, -- Frans van Berckel Media Engineer / Linux Master LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fransvberckel/

