[ Sorry for the huge crosspost, but this is a pretty big deal. ] On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 04:21:46PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > Some people have reported problems with initrd on sparc64. I'm trying to > trace that problem (hard, because I can't reproduce it). If you've had > the problem where silo reports loading the initrd into memory, but the > kernel fails to detect and use it, please try the second.b in the url > below, and recompile a kernel using one of the two patches there aswell > (2.4 and 2.6). > > The new second.b will show the phys address that the initrd was loaded > to, in addition to the virtual address.
I've built debian-installer images for sparc based on kernels with this patch (for 2.4) and the new second.b. You probably want the CDROM image since it's the one most commonly reported as not being able to boot. (cdrom-mini.iso) I am personally not able to try these out until I receive a sparc64 machine, which should happen sometime in the near future. http://june.voxel.net/~joshk/d-i/images/2004-05-14/ I hope that this resolves the issues with SILO and initrd! -- Joshua Kwan
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