Bug#68016: tftp and floppy install broken on sun4m
On Tue Aug 01, 2000 at 06:25:30PM +0200, Christian Meder wrote:
> > wierd reason. Is this repeatable? If so, are you in a position to run some
> > tests?
>
> Yep and yes. It is repeatable. I get the error when booting via tftp (tried it
> several times) _and_ when booting via floppies.
>
> I can run some tests but I guess I need to compile my own boot disk or
> tftp image then (which shouldn't be a problem per se it just takes time
> on a Sparc 20 ;-)
Excellent -- The first test I would like to see is the following -- can you
mount the boot floppies on a working system and make the following changes to
the rescue.bin image:
1) change the file /etc/inittab to remove the "null" at the
beginning of the line running rcS
2) Change /etc/init.d/rcS so that the first line reads
#!/bin/sh -x
The umount the rescue image, and try again. Changing things
the way will avoid all the pain of recompiling everything.
-Erik
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