----- Forwarded message from Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> ----- From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:34:23 -0400 To: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Cc: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: does anyone care about sparc CDs for sarge? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:28:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Sparc CDs for sarge currently do not boot. Bug #243122. I've seen a lot > of workarounds, and zero effort to fix the problem. If this problem > remains in 2 weeks, then we will not ship sparc CDs as part of beta 4 of > the Debian installer. Which puts us quite close to not including sparc > CDs as part of the sarge release. If someone cares about this, you need > to get busy and fix it. Here's the silo.conf that worked for me. Please place it in your debian-installer repo so it will be used next time the build is done. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/ partition=1 timeout=600 message=/boot/debian.txt default=linux append="cdrom devfs=mount rw" initrd=/boot/initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/0 # Standard boot images image[sun4c,sun4d,sun4m]=/boot/sparc32 label=linux image[sun4u]=/boot/sparc64 label=linux # Rescue boots image[sun4c,sun4d,sun4m]=/boot/sparc32 label=rescue append="init=/bin/sh" image[sun4u]=/boot/sparc64 label=rescue append="init=/bin/sh" ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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