Troubles booting 2.6.16 on sparc32

[Ludovic Courtès <ludo@chbouib.org>]

Hi,

As I mentioned in a previous post (a long time ago...), I am currently
unable to boot from the packaged 2.6.16 UP kernel on a bi-SuperSPARC
SS20.  Here's what happens: kernels boots fine, up to:

  Begin: Mounting root file system... ...
  Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ...
  Done.
  Begin: Waiting for root file system... ...
  /bin/sleep: 2: [several non-printable chars] : not found
  /bin/sleep: 2: [again] : not found
  /bin/sleep: 3: Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution

  [ad infinitum...]

This looks as though the shell was trying to interpret `/bin/sleep' as a
script.

Has anyone experienced this before?  Any idea what's happening?

Thanks,
Ludovic.