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Bug#509202: Broken kernel



On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 15:33 +0100, Pieter De Baets wrote:
> I can confirm this problem on a Sun Fire V890 when running the install with install console=ttya,9600n8
> 
> Attached is the output of the installer.

David Miller thinks this is due to a bug in mapping of 'sparse' RAM on
64-bit SPARC sytems which he recently fixed.  This bug was already known
to affect V440 and V880 machines.  We'll try to include this bug fix in
an update to Debian 5.0 'lenny' as well as Debian 6.0 'squeeze'.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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