Bug#238525: Sparc netboot fails on Ultra5

[Philip Armstrong <phil@kantaka.co.uk>]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:10:19PM +0100, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> 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

Ah ha. Thanks.

Why isn't devfs mounting on by default if it won't boot without it?

cheers,

Phil

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