Karmic for Sparc

[Michael Casadevall]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:42 AM, John Cater <katre50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I can reproduce on my Sunfire. I think SILO broke when it was migrated
>> to GCC 4.4. Unfortunately, this freaking antique can't netboot, which
>> means its a PITA to spin a new image with a different SILO to config.
>>
>
> I have netboot and am happy to test builds. Unfortunately I have no idea how
> to make a new build myself (but I'd be happy to learn if it'll help).
>
> katre
>
>
Well, as a further data point, I can get recent SILOs to start my
machine (they panic in upstart), so it seems only netboot and/or cdrom
based boots are hosed.

John: on an installed system, does the latest karmic render your
machine unbootable on SPARC?
Michael
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