Re: Bug#865314: debian-installer-9-netboot-mips: 32bit MIPS (big-endian) Malta netboot installer doesn't boot

Steve McIntyre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.mips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 04:01:26PM +0200, Bruno Bierbaumer wrote:
>Yes, it works perfectly well for Debian Jessie.

Ok, thanks for confirming.

mips folks - any clues please? AFAICS we've had ~zero input about mips
in d-i and image work, and no visible testing. Some help would be
appreciated...

>On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:47:52 +0100 Steve McIntyre <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 03:43:36PM +0200, Bruno Bierbaumer wrote:
>> >It also seems to be broken on MIPSEL
>> >
>> >wget
>> >http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-mipsel/current/images/malta/netboot/initrd.gz
>> >wget
>> >http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/installer-mipsel/current/images/malta/netboot/vmlinux-4.9.0-3-4kc-malta
>> >qemu-system-mipsel -M malta -m 256 -kernel vmlinux-4.9.0-3-4kc-malta
>> >-initrd initrd.gz -nographic
>> 
>> Hi Bruno,
>> 
>> Did the same setup work with jessie images? I've got ~no background
>> with mips stuff here...
>> 
>> -- 
>> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                [email protected]
>> "We're the technical experts.  We were hired so that management could
>>  ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs."  -- Mike Andrews
>> 
>> 
>> 
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