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

[Magnus Hyllander <mhypub1@hyllander.org>]

Blars Blarson wrote:

> 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.
>  
I tried this option with both the beta 4 image and cdrom-mini.iso. It 
didn't help in either case, the same error still occurs.