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Bug#320054: marked as done (installation-reports: [sparc][netboot] Gui/character set problem when booting 2.6 kernel)

Your message dated Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:58:02 +0000
with message-id <E1OtBnO-0004mo-6e@ravel.debian.org>
and subject line Closing old installation report #320054
has caused the Debian Bug report #320054,
regarding installation-reports: [sparc][netboot] Gui/character set problem when booting 2.6 kernel
to be marked as done.

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So I booted:

http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/2005-07-26/sparc64/netboot/boot.img
and
http://people.debian.org/~stappers/d-i/images/2005-07-26/sparc64/netboot/2.6/boot.img

They were booted on a Sun Blade 100 using netboot, I added the
ramdisk_size=9000 to the prompt to avoid bug 319788. At this point I
notice the following:

The 2.4 images boots the installer nicely, it shows the language
selection splashscreen as expected. The problem occurs when booting the
2.6 kernel. When it is booted the border (the border is the black line
in the gray area) of the selection dialog is gone, and it looks like the characters are shifted one position to the right. When changing a selection English looks like EEnglish (for example). This could be related to bug 282781 or 296735. The difference is that the machine stays responsive and you could finish the installation this way, but it looks ugly.

A solution to this problem is the following. Press ctrl+f1, activate the
shell, execute 'debian-installer', the installer starts and the problem
is gone. When you switch between tty0 and tty1 you can clearly see that
everything is shifted one (or multiple characters) to the left (the
number of characters is equal to the number of character that make up
the border, meaning the lower line is fully gone, the body is shifted
one to the left and the title is left aligned instead of centered).

To summarize:

When booting a 2.6 kernel, the installer that appears on the first
console is fscked up, as is each installer launched on that console.
Especially that characers that make up the border are missing. On
the second console everything looks/works just fine.

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We are closing this installation report for one of the following
reasons:
- it was reported with a pre-lenny version of Debian
  Installer.
- indications in the installation report give the feeling that
  the reported problem waslying in another software, unrelated to
  D-I, which we can't easily identify.
- indications in the installation report suggest that it may have been
  fixed in a more recent version of a D-I component
- it was successful and we forgot closing it..:-)
- it has no information we consider useful


The D-I team is currently in the process of cleaning out the old spool
of installation reports that haven't bene processed yet. 

In case you think that the problem you reported has chances to be
still present, please reiterate your installation test with
a more recent image of D-I, if you're in position of doing this.

You'll find daily builds at
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer. We recommend you choose
the netboot image, in the "daily builds section", then choose to
install "squeeze" when prompted.

If some problems are found, please report them with a new bug sent
against installation-reports.

Many thanks for your understanding and your help improving Debian,
past and present.

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