Re: Unofficial Squeeze installer image available
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:07:49PM +0000, Richard Mortimer wrote:
> Hi Jurij,
>
> On 09/02/2011 21:43, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> >[bcc: debian-boot@lists.debian.org and some bug reporters]
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >Over the last couple of days I've managed to build a functional
> >Squeeze installer mini iso image for sparc, which addresses all known
> >sparc-specific problems described in Squeeze errata. You can find the
> >image, patches used to build it and a README file describing the bugs
> >it's supposed to address (as well as rebuild instructions) at
> >
> >http://www.wooyd.org/debian/squeeze/
> >
> Do you have a netboot image that you could create. I will gladly
> give that a test to make sure it does (still) work on my Sparc
> machines.
Sure, I have just uploaded a netboot image to the same location.
> >If you have encountered problems during Squeeze installation, please
> >test this image and report the results, as a positive confirmation of
> >fixes on a variety of different systems is essential for getting all
> >these fixes into the first Squeeze point release.
> >
> I did spot a couple of issues with the installer when I gave squeeze
> a try a couple of weeks back. I only got chance to file an
> installation report about one of them
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611314
> Its not a massive show stopper and has an easy workaround but if
> that can be fixed then it will make others lives easier.
Yeah, this bug was pointed out to me just yesterday. I don't know
what's going on there yet, it appears that the PCI IDs of your
card match the ones which are supported by the driver, so if module is
not loaded at all there is probably something wrong with udev. At a
point where it says it cannot detect the disks, can you drop back to
shell and see whether the driver actually isn't loaded (as opposed to
being loaded but failing to find the disks anyway)? Maybe there is
something relevant showing up in dmesg or /var/log/messages?
If not, I'll try to come up with some udev debugging commands to try
and understand why this detection is failing.
Best regards,
--
Jurij Smakov jurij@wooyd.org
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