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Bug#305117: installation report



On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:49:04AM +0200, Peter 'p2' De Schrijver wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 06:28:01PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:09:53AM +0200, Peter De Schrijver wrote:
> > > Debian-installer-version: 2005/04/17 rc3 netboot image
> > > uname -a: Linux pisco 2.4.27-2-generic #1 Sat Apr 9 19:43:25 UTC 2005 alpha GNU/Linux
> > > Date: Mon Apr 18 02:59:19 CEST 2005
> > > Method: netboot from local server. installation from ftp.belnet.be

> > > 1) Initial boot only worked after I changed the ramdisk size by giving
> > > the ramdisk_size parameter. The image could be configured to give this
> > > parameter automagically.

> > What was the boot commandline that failed, and what did you set ramdisk_size
> > to in order to get it booting?

> Ok. I found the problem. The XP1000 SRM by default passes -fl a to the
> boot command which causes aboot to replace the kernel flags by the
> letter 'a'. This is overwrites the default commandline in the netboot
> image :( Workaround is to set boot_osflags to "" before doing a bootp.

Yep, well-known bug #271180.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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