bHi Adrian! On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 9:26 AM John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > > Hello Rich! > > On 5/9/21 3:24 PM, Rich wrote: > > I tried just handing it vmlinux from > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2021-04-17/sparc64/debian-installer-images_20210415_sparc64.tar.gz > > over TFTP, but that just dies with "fast Data Access MMU Miss" before > > ever displaying anything suggesting Linux was booting, so that seems > > wrong. > > netboot installers are part of the debian-installer tarball found here [1]. > > Please try with that one and report back. netboot is currently untested.
You know, you say they're part of it, but I checked one from 2019 and that one... drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 379 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/MANIFEST -rw-r--r-- root/root 8923 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/MANIFEST.udebs -rw-r--r-- root/root 576 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/MD5SUMS -rw-r--r-- root/root 972 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/SHA256SUMS drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/cdrom/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 1056231 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/cdrom/debian-cd_info.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 18225780 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/cdrom/initrd.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 16342832 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/cdrom/vmlinux drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/netboot/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/netboot/debian-installer/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/netboot/debian-installer/sparc64/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 16594288 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/netboot/debian-installer/sparc64/initrd.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 16342832 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/netboot/debian-installer/sparc64/vmlinux -rw-r--r-- root/root 43292672 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/netboot/mini.iso -rw-r--r-- root/root 22716904 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 3405 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/20210415/images/udeb.list lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./installer-sparc64/current -> 20210415 netboot.tar.gz just contains the initrd.gz and vmlinux again: $ tar tvf netboot.tar.gz drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./debian-installer/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2021-04-14 18:06 ./debian-installer/sparc64/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 16594288 2021-04-14 18:06 ./debian-installer/sparc64/initrd.gz -rw-r--r-- root/root 16342832 2021-04-14 18:06 ./debian-installer/sparc64/vmlinux -rw-r--r-- root/root 57 2021-04-14 18:06 ./version.info So which installer image, precisely, would you like me to use? - Rich > Adrian > > > [1] > > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/debian-installer/2021-04-17/sparc64/ > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
