reassign 440720 debian-installer retitle 440720 [SPARC]: non-SMP kernel fail on SunFIres with >= 2 CPUs thanks
After a lot of testing the I didn't manage to find a single non-SMP kernel which would boot on a SunFire v880. As google finds several reports of failed installs on SunFire machines with >=2 Ultrasparc III and it seems to work well on machines with one CPU only (http://www.nabble.com/SunFire-v240---Debian---Getting-Closer-t1103286.html for example, read the lower part - google finds more reports like that, including reports that gentoo installed fine while Debian failed to install) I'd like to suggest to use the SMP kernel on sparc as default for the installer, or if that's a problem for the single CPU machines, provide both versions of the installer. On the SunFirev880 all SMP kernels >= 2.6.21 booted, with the only problem that the qla2xxx module of 2.6.21 had hickups with the FC controller in the machine, but I guess the kernel would have worked otherwise. The installer from lenny which ships with a non-SMP kernel crashed baly as you can see in the bug report above. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
