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Bug#509178: booting Debian installer kernel on SunBlade from CDROM is not really supported (was: Re: Bug#509178: installation-reports: sparc fails to boot 2.6.26: Memory Address not Aligned)



Hi,

Op Sat 20 Dec 2008 om 10:43:17 +0100 schreef Joost van Baal:
> 
> This might be the same bug as #509202.
> 
> I'll try to setup cu or minicom to collect kernel messages on tuesday,
> while I am at the university again.
> 
> FWIW, the boot fails in the same way with
> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_rc1/sparc/iso-cd/debian-testing-sparc-netinst.iso
> , built on 20081104-23:58 :
> 
>  Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
>  Loaded kernel version 2.6.26
>  Loading initial ramdisk (4284688 bytes at ....
>  Memory Address not Aligned
> 
> I'll try to get it to boot with the latest etch kernel on tuesday.

Which fails too.

On
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch05s03.html#sparc-boot-problems
it says: "We recommend to install [SunBlade] systems by netbooting the
installer."

I am confident that'll work out fine: closing this bug.

Bye,

Joost

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Joost van Baal                            http://abramowitz.uvt.nl/
                                                 Tilburg University
mailto:joostvb.uvt.nl                               The Netherlands

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