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Re: Latest sparc CD image fails



In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.58.0404280057230.1166@bobcat> you write:
>I have just tried to boot my Sparcstation 10 from CD using the latest
>sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso from [0] (just to make sure that it's the
>right one, md5sum is 2d8db3d36a3010cd1b8194fbc38568eb). It fails with
>kernel panic during the initial boot. The last screenful of messages is:
>Mounted devfs on /dev
>Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
> Press L1-A to return to the boot prom

known bug, try booting with "linux rw framebuffer=false" at the silo
prompt.  (The framebuffer=false is to work around another bug unless
you are using a serial console.)
-- 
Blars Blarson			blarson@blars.org
				http://www.blars.org/blars.html
With Microsoft, failure is not an option.  It is a standard feature.



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