On Thursday 02 February 2006 21:25, Joey Hess wrote: > I've also successfully installed etch on a sparc4c machine (using the > 2.6 kernel; 2.4 doesn't work), and it works ok. IIRC the earlier > problems seem to be resolved. Jurij: Do you think we should make an effort to support sparc32 using 2.6 for d-i? You said yourself that things were looking better and these reports seem to confirm it. This will be after the Beta2 release of the installer though. Request to all sparc32 owners out there: please try running your system with latest 2.6.15 kernel from unstable and report any issues. Make sure you read up on the possible issues in a 2.4 to 2.6 migration documented in the Sarge release notes [1] and take the usual precautions before you do so. Not documented in the release notes are possible issues with the new initramfs initrd generators: initramfs-tools and yaird. These replace initrd-tools. initramfs-tools is currently known to be broken for sparc (#347902), but yaird should work OK. Due to missing sysfs support in sbus device drivers you may experience problems booting systems that need an sbus device to boot. In that case, you may have to specify that the required module should be included in the initrd in the configuration files of the initrd generator, or compile a custom kernel that has the drivers required to boot the system compiled into the kernel. Cheers, FJP [1]http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-upgrade-to-2.6
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