Re: Bug#248963: Sarge Debian-installer installation error on SPARC IPX

[Blars Blarson <blarson@blars.org>]

In article <[🔎] 20040514190031.GA24504@deprecation.cyrius.com> 
tbm@cyrius.com writes:
>* Magnus Hyllander <magnus@hyllander.org> [2004-05-14 20:46]:
>> Booting with "linux ramdisk_size=8192" gets me past the previous 
>> problem. Now I get other errors just a little later during initial boot:
>> 
>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
>> Setting up filesystem, please wait ...
>> echo[8]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
>> mount[9]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
>> uname[11]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
>> grep[12]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
>> init[10]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
>> [[13]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
>> Segmentation fault
>> BusyBox v1.00-pre10 (Debian 20040415-3) multi-call binary
>
>And idea?

This is one of the possible symtoms of the bterm/sparc framebuffer bug.

Try adding the "debian-installer/framebuffer=false" option to the silo
command line.


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