Package: installation-reports Version: sparc 20040410 Severity: normal
Debian-installer-version: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/sparc/current/sarge-sparc-netinst.iso (2004-04-10) ( MD5=21e4902c4ece557fc192fe2e94fa3862 ) uname -a: Date: 2004-04-11 15:00 (GMT+10) Method: cdrom, internal IDE cdrom. Machine: Sun Ultra 10 UPA/PCI Processor: UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz Memory: 256 Megabytes Root Device: IDE hard disk Root Size/partition table: existing Sun partition table Output of lspci: Base System Installation Checklist: Initial boot worked: [E] Configure network HW: [ ] Config network: [ ] Detect CD: [O] Load installer modules: [ ] Detect hard drives: [O] Partition hard drives: [ ] Create file systems: [ ] Mount partitions: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Reboot: [ ] [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Comments/Problems: sun4u machine. The system is running OpenBoot3.25. The boot command was ok boot cdrom The installer cd boots ok, and gives me a welcome prompt. I hit <return> to start the installer. It detects most of the hardware (hard disks, scsi card, external drive, mouse, network), and then fails with this: sh-2021: reiserfs_read_super: can not find reiserfs on ramdisk(1,0) Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prompt I doubt that this is the problem, but the cdrom disc was burned with Sun's cdrw program, cdrw -C -v -i sarge-sparc-netinst.iso The arguments mean: -C use disc capacity (if higher than the default 600M) -v verbose -i <file> Image file for creating data CDs I could loopback-mount the .iso ok on another debian box. I could mount the burned cdrom ok on that box as well. Also tried an earlier version, beta3 netinst of 2004-03-30 (3ed15e150e820b47886d8058d0d99d33). This failed in the same way. Also tested with Woody 3.0 disc 1 - I got the installer to boot (ie got the welcome prompt). I tried to boot the installation kernel but it failed with this: cannot find /boot/sparc64.gz (Unknown isofs error) which is probably my fault... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
