sparc d-i boot error

[Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>]

I hooked up a serial console so I could capture the messages as I
tried to boot from my handbuilt boot cd.  (d-i cvs as of a couple of
days ago.) The interesting part of it is below.  If I am interpreting
it correctly, it mounts the initrd as root, then tries to mount root
via nfs which fails, tries to mount root on floppy that fails, then
panics.  This looks like it may be a kernel problem.

[normal messages ...]
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 956k freed
VFS: Mounted root (romfs filesystem) readonly.
Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = ffffffff
tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd = fc000000
              \|/ ____ \|/
              "@'/ ,. \`@"
              /_| \__/ |_\
                 \__U_/
swapper(1): Oops
PSR: 419010c6 PC: 00000000 NPC: 00000004 Y: 00000000    Not tainted
g0: 00000000 g1: f025fd7c g2: f025ec00 g3: 00000000 g4: 0000051f g5: f02008ac g6: f5f94000 g7: 00000000
o0: 00000003 o1: ffffffff o2: 00000008 o3: 00000034 o4: f01c0f30 o5: f023ded7 sp: f5f95a88 o7: f01139d4
l0: f025fc00 l1: f0200800 l2: f025ec00 l3: 00000004 l4: 00000008 l5: 00000000 l6: f5f94000 l7: f01fb1c0
i0: f025fd7c i1: f01d9ed8 i2: 00000000 i3: 00001000 i4: 00000000 i5: 00000000 fp: f5f95af0 i7: f0113b28
Caller[f0113b28]
Caller[f0119884]
[further errors...]


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