On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 06:41:52PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > I downloaded the tftpboot image provided from the Download > section of the debian.org web site for Sparc. Can you provide the exact URL? My worry is that you might have downloaded one of the daily-built images, which may be in various states of brokenness. The Lenny netboot image is at http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-sparc/current/images/netboot/boot.img The bug I've mentioned, and which should be resolved in this image, is http://bugs.debian.org/504721. I see, however, that we never got a confirmation from the original reporter that the fix worked on his machine (it did work for mine). > > I've tested the lenny installer and it worked correctly with serial > > console (I remember we pushed some fixes for it pretty late in lenny > > release cycle). > > It's not exactly a serial console, even though the niagara console is > implemented using a driver that sits on top of the serial core layer. > > If you test on a non-niagara system with serial console, it's not the > same test. Not even remotely. The device name is different, it shows > up differently in sysfs, etc. > > > I believe we fixed it in Lenny r1 release, it would be great to it if > > you could upgrade to it and confirm it (or install from scratch using > > 5.0.1 media from http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/debian-installer). > > I'll give it a try and report back. Thanks. -- Jurij Smakov jurij@xxxxxxxxx Key: http://www.wooyd.org/pgpkey/ KeyID: C99E03CC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
