----- Forwarded message from Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 14:46:39 -0400 To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: does anyone care about sparc CDs for sarge? User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 02:38:57PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:28:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Sparc CDs for sarge currently do not boot. Bug #243122. I've seen a lot > > of workarounds, and zero effort to fix the problem. If this problem > > remains in 2 weeks, then we will not ship sparc CDs as part of beta 4 of > > the Debian installer. Which puts us quite close to not including sparc > > CDs as part of the sarge release. If someone cares about this, you need > > to get busy and fix it. > > BTW, the installer is broken. It seems to expect the need to load cd > modules in order to detect a CD. However, the cd is already detected and > recognized by the kernel. > > Why is that? My mistake, the initrd doesn't contain the ide-cd module. That needs to be fixed. It used to be there. Someone must have removed that. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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