Re: Can't boot linux on sun blade 2000

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:23:46PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 03:17:59PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > > You should really be using the Sarge tftboot images.
> > > http://people.debian.org/~jbailey/d-i/sparc/daily/sparc64/netboot/boot.img
> > 
> > No, he shouldn't those images aren't tested very well. My woody images
> > are.
> 
> You seem to have missed the numerous successful (or mostly so) installation
> reports on both sparc and sparc64 and my hijack (to Debian Install System
> Team) of your mostly broken silo-installer package and serial console fixes,
> all of which contributed to successes with the new Debian installer.
> 
> In short, thanks for undermining our past few months' work.

Thanks for belittling my years of work on the sparc port. I appreciate
that.

> > > Pass devfs=mount on the command line and it should Just Work.
> > > Note that this crude hack isn't required in the latest images.
> > 
> > That shouldn't matter with the image he is using.
> 
> I thought that the images were d-i/sarge based. This was a dominant
> problem until fairly recently (where the hack was to pass devfs=mount on
> the command line.)
> 
> I basically know nothing about boot-floppies on !i386, so I'd not have
> spoken up if I had known.

Great, piping in when you aren't sure of what's going on.

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