Re: daily build for Sparc

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

Op 06-07-2008 om 13:22 schreef Joey Hess:
> Geert Stappers wrote:
> > With http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/sparc/daily/mini.iso
> > I get these errors:
> > 
> >  Your imagename `install' and arguments `' have either wrong syntax,
> >  or describe a label which is not present in silo.conf
> 
> Based on qemu's man page, I think that qemu-system-sparc emulates a
> sparc32, which is probably why silo is ignoring this item from
> silo.conf with a "install" label:
> 
> # Standard boot images
> image[sun4u]=/boot/vmlinuz-sparc64
>   label=install

That qemu is not yet emulating sparc64 in system mode,
explains a lot. It even answers the question

> > Does it make sense that I keep building a daily build for d-i sparc
> > which only contains a working netboot?

with "Yes, it makes sense."

Thanks

Cheers
Geert Stappers