Bug#645657: Debian daily image isn't bootable on sparc
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:08:07PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> retitle 645657 Daily sparc netboot images are too big, fail to boot
> thanks
>
> The netboot images are too big and are larger than OBP can handle (it
> seems the limit is around 10MB).
I had a similar problem with a Sun Ultra 10, but that displays the
offset while it is loading. I got "a00000 Fast Data Access MMU Miss"
which means the limit is exactly 10 MB. Presumably this limit has stayed
the same for a long time.
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Andreas Bombe
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