Bug#253410: Booting kernel 2.6 failed with 'attempted to kill init' on powerpc

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

reassign 253410 busybox-cvs-udeb
retitle 253410 cp from cramfs fails [fixed in unstable]
tags 253410 sarge
thanks

On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:19:00AM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> package: debian-installer
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to boot the installer with the 2.6 kernel on my powermac 
> ('install-2.6') but it failed with a kernel panic.
> 
> "Setting up filesystem, please wait...
> umount /initrd: invalid argument
> cp: unable to link `/mnt/usr/share/discover/usb.lst' : Operation not 
> permited
> cp: unable to link `/mnt/var/log/messages' : Operation not permited
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!"

This has been fixed in more recent versions of busybox-cvs-udeb, which
are not yet in sarge. The sid_d-i images should work for you.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]