Bug#238857: Installation Report on Sparc32

[Thomas Poindessous <thomas@poindessous.com>]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:52:03PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
> 
> 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.

Could you test it with these arguments :

devfs=mount root=/dev/rd/0

and maybe add these also :

ramdisk_size=8192

thanks.

-- 
Thomas Poindessous