RE: Latest Sarge netboot failing...
Gives the exact same effect as the b4 image:
VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
Setting up filesystem, please wait ...
Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
umount: /initrd: invalid argument
Segmentation fault
Segmentation fault
Segmentation fault
[endless loop while producing screen distortions]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blars Blarson [mailto:blarson@blars.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 10:21 PM
> To: alex@moocows.org; debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Latest Sarge netboot failing...
>
> In article <[🔎] 20040520194442.7EC8BEAEB@murphy.debian.org> you write:
> >I just tried the daily netboot image, of course with
> negative outcome...
> >I thought I'd tell the list, to maybe get some pointers or
> help someone fix
> >it ;)
> >here's the kernel's last few burps :
> >
> >VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> >attempt to access beyond end of device
> >01:00: rw=0 want=5246, limit=4096
>
> It looks like the initrd is exceeding 4MB again, try adding
> "ramdisk_size=8192" to the silo boot options.
>
> >The beta4 release fails with a segmentation fault.
> >The machine is an Ultra60, 1x450 MHz CPU, 512mb of mem, Creator 3D,
> >SCSI only
> >
> >Maybe I'm also just doing something wrong - any ideas ?
>
> It looks like this may have been figured out, but the fixes have not
> yet been applied. (cramfs bug with large page sizes, workaround is to
> not use cramfs or build it into the kernel.)
>
> In other words, I expect the current images to fail on your system.
> --
> Blars Blarson blarson@blars.org
> http://www.blars.org/blars.html
> With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.
>
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