Bug#238525: Sparc netboot fails on Ultra5

[Thomas Poindessous <thomas@poindessous.com>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:52:14PM +0000, Philip Armstrong wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> 
> The tftp transfer goes fine & the kernel boots, mounts the initrd this
> time (unlike the CD install I tried earlier today), but then fails
> with the following errors at the end of the log: 
> 
>   VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
>   Warning: unable to open initial console.
>   Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
>   Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
>   kernel panic: attempted to kill init!

you need to boot with some args :
for example :

boot net:dhcp devfs=mount

-- 
Thomas Poindessous