Bug#240372: SPARCstation 5 installation report
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: 2004/03/26 daily sparc-sarge-businesscard.iso
uname -a: Linux opal 2.4.24-sparc32 #1 Fri Jan 30 16:04:55 EST 2004
sparc unknown
Date: 2004/03/04
Method: network installation, CD-ROM, mirror: sunsite.ualberta.ca, not
proxied
Machine: Sun SPARCstation 5
Processor: 25MHz(?) sun4m
Memory: 64 MB
Root Device: SCSI /dev/hda 1GB
Root Size/partition table:
scsi(0,3,0)part1 ext3 32MB /boot
scsi(0,3,0)part2 swap 128MB
scsi(0,3,0)part4 ext3 256MB /root
scsi(0,3,0)part5 ext3 256MB /var
scsi(0,3,0)part6 ext2 324MB /tmp
scsi(0,4,0)part1 ext3 2GB /usr
scsi(0,4,0)part2 reiser 2GB /home
Output of lspci: N/A
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
Initial boot still requires explicity setting the root device:
"linux root=/dev/rd/0 rw". There was a comment, IIRC, yesterday on
#debian-boot which suggested that initrd doesn't have the right pivot.
Installed testing.
Reboot:
WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field. I will
kludge around things for you, but you should fix your /etc/fstab file as
soon as you can.
And then the boot hangs because the root filesystem is read-only
Note: today's sarge-sparc-netinst.iso fails to install because of a
missing initrd-tools package.
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