Re: does anyone care about sparc CDs for sarge?
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:28:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Sparc CDs for sarge currently do not boot. Bug #243122. I've seen a lot
> of workarounds, and zero effort to fix the problem. If this problem
> remains in 2 weeks, then we will not ship sparc CDs as part of beta 4 of
> the Debian installer. Which puts us quite close to not including sparc
> CDs as part of the sarge release. If someone cares about this, you need
> to get busy and fix it.
Here's the silo.conf that worked for me. Please place it in your
debian-installer repo so it will be used next time the build is done.
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partition=1
timeout=600
message=/boot/debian.txt
default=linux
append="cdrom devfs=mount rw"
initrd=/boot/initrd.gz
root=/dev/rd/0
# Standard boot images
image[sun4c,sun4d,sun4m]=/boot/sparc32
label=linux
image[sun4u]=/boot/sparc64
label=linux
# Rescue boots
image[sun4c,sun4d,sun4m]=/boot/sparc32
label=rescue
append="init=/bin/sh"
image[sun4u]=/boot/sparc64
label=rescue
append="init=/bin/sh"
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