d-i: sparc64 problems: a summary

[Joerg Friedrich <Joerg.Dieter.Friedrich@uni-konstanz.de>]

Hi,
Today I tried with the help of joshk to use the cdimages on sparc64 (aka
UltraSparc)

For testing I pulled the cdrom-core-modules-2.4.24-sparc64 into
pkglists/netboot/sparc64.cfg, because miniiso is build with this flavour
and I want to test loading the cdmodules. The initrd then is now a bit
to large. (default ramdisk-size is 4MB). but ramdisk_size=8192 at silo
prompt help.

so I was able to boot with this:
'linux root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw ramdisk_size=8192 \
debian-installer/framebuffer=false'

(Disabled framebuffer because UPA/SBUS-Framebuffer are not supported)

Problem: modprobe -v <any-module> fails because busybox does not support
biarch (see #231606)

I rebuild d-i miniiso with modutils-basic into the initrd.

modprobe -v fails with 'no such module' but insmod works
I don't know why.
modprobe -c looks right and
modprobe -l lists all modules

I hope this helps.
-- 
Jörg Friedrich