Jurij Smakov wrote: > I will have to check that, but joshk does not recall ever having working > 2.6 images for sparc32. And I've checked that it is not really a genext2fs > fault. A netboot image with cramfs initrd also fails, as if the image > is corrupt. Looks like there is some kernel problem, so that it fails > to properly copy initrd in place, or something. Ok.. at least 2.4 works. It's not a new problem, but I could add it to the errata all the same. > I have also tried 2.4 and 2.6 netboot installs on another sparc64 machine > I have (Ultra 5). 2.4 works fine, 2.6 hangs due to a bug in sunsab serial > console driver, presumably it is the same problem you've seen on your > machine. I have committed a fix for that to 2.6.8 branch of debian-kernel > SVN, so it will most likely make it into the final release (not RC3 > though). Great news! -- see shy jo
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