Re: Sarge on a Sparc5

[James Morrison <ja2morri@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> writes:

> > > umount: /initrd: Invalid argument
> > > (and hangs here)
> 
> And it hangs on sparc64 too (Ultra Enterprise 2 netbooted).
> 
> > can you help us to debug this one ?
> > After this umount, it should launch bterm and main-menu.
> >
> > Can you netboot with this argument "init=/bin/sh"
> >
> > and then :
> > $ mount -t devfs /dev /dev
> > $ bterm -f unifont.bgf

> And sparc64 also hangs on running bterm.

 bterm needs a frame buffer.  Are you installing over a serial line?  If not
what video card do you have in your machines?
 
> -- 
> Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)
> 

Jim