Bug#238857: Installation Report on Sparc32

[Peter <petrvz@gmx.net>]

Package: installation-reports

Debian-installer-version: Beta 3
uname -a: Linux hobbes 2.4.23 #1 Sun Nov 30 17:41:34 EST 2003 sparc unknown
Date: <March 19th 2004>
Method: Installation attempt from burned http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/beta3/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso

Machine: Sparc IPX
Processor: sun4c
Memory: 52MB
Root Device: SCSI  /dev/sda
Root Size/partition table: 
/ ext2 /dev/sda1 983.06 MB
/home ext2 /dev/sda2 484.14 MB
/var ext2 /dev/sda5 2.38 GB
Output of lspci:
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.

Base System Installation Checklist:

Initial boot worked:    [O]
Configure network HW:   [ ]
Config network:         [ ]
Detect CD:              [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives:     [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Create file systems:    [ ]
Mount partitions:       [ ]
Install base system:    [ ]
Install boot loader:    [ ]
Reboot:                 [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Comments/Problems:

I burned the sparc/beta3/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso 
and booted from it, but after booting the kernel it hangs with a
kernelpanic and the message
VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom.

After trying again with the argument linux root=/dev/sda1 it proceeds to
boot into my existing Woody install, but not into the Debian installer.