Re: Bug#247811: sparc beta 4 install failures
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On Fri, 07 May 2004 00:57:05 -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
> Since I had the exact same problems with both the businesscard and
> netinstall cdrom images, I'm reporting them together.
>
> I needed to use "linux ramdisk_size=8192" to get the cd to boot.
OK. It seems that the initrd has bloated since the last time we looked at
this. I might even address this in the kernel.
> modprobe of sr_mod failed, apparently it is trying to use the known
> broken busybox modprobe. Same problem as has been reported before.
A biarch modutils that works for sparc64 is in testing, I think. I took
off from IRC before I knew whether it worked or not though. Bastian?
> The businesscard image is now trying to load modules off of the cdrom.
> This seems to be a new problem.
That sounds like appropriate behavior to me; doesn't the cdrom initrd
contain a pile of modules for both sparc32 and 64?
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Joshua Kwan
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