Bug#121110: boot-floppies: TFTP boot on Alpha broken
tags 121110 + moreinfo
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Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org> writes:
> Package: boot-floppies
> Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-25
> Severity: normal
>
> Installing via tftpboot.img will stall at installation of libc6.1, as
> has been reported to debian-alpha several times,
> e.g. http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2001/debian-alpha-200110/msg00010.html. "rgh" told me on IRC:
>
> <rgh> mellum: re "init q", when I had that problem ia64, it was
> because I forgot to boot with root=/dev/ram
> <rgh> mellum: without that, the kernel wants to do it's initrd magic,
> and runs /linuxrc before starting sbin/init. linuxrc is linked to
> init, so effectively init gets run as pid 12 (or something > 1,
> anyway)
> <rgh> linuxrc is run with a pid > 1, and the kernel expects that to
> return before it starts init as pid 1
> <rgh> root=/dev/ram makes the kernel realise that the ramdisk si a
> real ramdisk, and not an initrd, so it disables the running of
> linuxrc
>
> So we need to find a way to force this parameter.
Isn't this the same as #116829 and wasn't it fixed in sysvinit 2.84-1 ?
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