Hi, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes: > Possibly this is covered by the errata for the Etch installer (esp module > broken) [1]. > > It is one of the many issues that contribute to the decision to drop > support for sparc32... > > [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/debian-installer/ ESP has been rewritten since then, so perhaps newer kernel versions would work (or fail differently ;-)). Thanks, Ludovic.