Jurij Smakov wrote: > CD netinst install - ok > 2.4 netboot install - ok > 2.6 netboot install - fails on initial boot with the error: > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > Freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed > EXT2-fs error (device ram0): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #2: > unaligned directory entry - offset=0, inode=1887317007, rec_len=53961, > name_len=101 > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. > > I am pretty sure that this is due to genext2fs generating broken d-i > initrd image. I'll investigate further. Suck. This worked in rc2 didn't it? > sparc64 - Ultra 1, 143 MHz Ultrasparc CPU, 192 MB RAM > ----------------------------------------------------- > CD netinst install - ok > 2.4 netboot install - ok > 2.6 netboot install - ok, with some error messages during the initial > boot: > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > RAMDISK: incomplete write (-28 != 32768) 8388608 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > Setting up filesystem, please wait ... > Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd. > cat: /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/class: No such file or directory > FATAL: Module usbkbd not found. > FATAL: Module hid not found. > FATAL: Module usbhid not found. > FATAL: Module usbserial not found. AFAIK this does not indicate a problem, since everything except for [ueo]hci-hcd modules are built into the sparc64 2.6 kernel. We do have a usb-modules that should be on the initrd for those modules. > On all serial console installs following seemingly harmless error/warning > messages were noted: > > * On initial boot: unimplemented Sparc system call 188 > * Before the first d-i screen comes up: > (process:144): ERROR **: Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the > console > * After second stage has booted: > error: Unable to switch charset mapping to ISO-8859-1 with terminal > 'serial' > warning: Disabling unsupported locale 'en_US'. > * When booting from the netinst CD and not choosing any extra apt sources: > mdetect, read-edid packages are not found. > * After the second stage has finished, before the login prompt appears: > zs_close: bad serial port count; tty->count is 1, info->count is 3 (or 4) > This is not displayed for the 2.6 netboot. Yep, I've seen all of these too, some are not even sparc specific. -- see shy jo
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