Re: kernel panic in wheezy installer

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-sparc@telemetry.co.uk>]

On 21/03/17 17:30, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 16:05 +0000, txt.file wrote:
> > I tried to install Linux on a Sun Netra T1 200. I booted [0] (didn't
> > find any newer netboot image) via netboot. Sadly I get an kernel
> > panic after the installer searches for DHCP.
> > I know that wheezy is in LTS (but not for sparc). Are there any newer
> > netboot images available? Under ports.debian.org I only found ISO
> > images for sid.
> > The stack trace is all the output I get on the serial interface.
>
> Good to know, there a Debian ports Sparc64 netboot version by Adrian.
>
> https://people.debian.org/~glaubitz/netboot/

Even though this is "work in progress" it's a far better bet than 
"Wheezy" or for that matter "Squeeze" which preceded it.

The even-older "Lenny" was fairly robust, and I've still got it on 
multiple Netras of that vintage without significant problem.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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