Bug#315978: installation-reports: [sparc64] can't net install on v210

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: normal

Debian-installer-version: rc3, snapshot
Date: 2005-06-27
Method: netboot

Machine: Sun sparc v210
Processor: ultrasparc IIIi

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

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:                 [ ]

Comments/Problems:

I've tried a netboot install on a Sun sparc64 v210 without any luck
using either the default or 2.6 kernel images from either sarge and
the current snapshot.  I also asked on the sparc list with no
response.  It always hangs the system at

  Remapping the kernel... done.

and I have to do a reset, i.e. break won't get me back to the openboot
prompt.

Openboot is 4.11.4, in case that's relevant.  I can change it if
that's likely to help.  Any other suggestions welcome.  (CD install is
said not to work on such systems.)