Bug#248855: Fw: Bug#248855: about your Debian installation report
Problems, problems, problems...
As Joey requested, I used a CD from:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/pre-rc2/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso
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Option chosen at boot: linux
Linux kernel: 2.4.27
1) initial installer screen
+ no strange black boxes instead of non-ASCII characters
- non-working USB keyboard
Nothing else could be tested :-(
This is a VERY old problem. Some daily d-i CD builds were
sometimes able to solve this (I've had a working USB keyboard).
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Option chosen at boot: rescue
Linux kernel: 2.4.27
Oops. A message:
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
Alas, the L1-A (actually: Stop+A) combination never works for Debian.
So, nothing more could be tested :-(
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Specyfying that I would like to use different keyboard:
boot: linux bootkbd=qwerty/us
didn't help. Another try:
boot: linux verbose
and the keyboard is still frozen. For now I used documentation from:
http://www.debian.org.releases/stable/sparc/ch-rescue-boot.en.html
Feeling that I'm doing something wrong, I searched again and I found:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch05s02.html
So I tried:
boot: linux debconf/priority=low
Only a minor success. I could see a d-i main menu, but I still was
unable to get to the important option:
Select a keyboard layout
Then again I tried:
boot: linux debian-installer/probe/usb=true
Complete bummer. Keyboard still frozen. At this point I gave up.
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Later the same day I tried the daily build:
http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/sid_d-i/sparc/20041019/sarge-sparc-businesscard.iso
The same problems. I think I could use some help.
Wiktor Wandachowicz
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