Bug#265442: Debian Installer RC 1 on SPARC
Package: installation-reports
Debian-installer-version: Release Candidate 1
uname -a: N/A
Date: Fri Aug 13 10:09:14 CEST 2004
Method: Booted from CD
Machine: Sun SparcStation 2
Processor: ?
Memory: 32 MB
Root Device: SCSI, /dev/sda
Root Size/partition table: N/A
Output of lspci: N/A
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [E]
Configure network HW: [ ]
Config network: [ ]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives: [ ]
Create file systems: [ ]
Mount partitions: [ ]
Install base system: [ ]
Install boot loader: [ ]
Reboot: [ ]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
Comments/Problems:
The last lines on the screen contained a few 'Unimplemented SPARC system call
188' messages.
Final messages are:
Busybox v1.00-pre10 (Debian 20040623-1) multi-call binary
Usage: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE DEST
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
I tried to install without a framebuffer (debian-installer/framebuffer=false)
but ended with the same result.
Finally, I attached a serial console and booted with the option
'console=ttya'.
Everything up to 'Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed' is perfectly
readable, but the next messages are somehow garbled up. But it was still
readable enough to see that exactly the same thing had happened: kernel
panic.
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