[Bug 430272] Re: karmic boot hung after /scripts/init-bottom

[Quinn Plattel]

Apparantly, even though a fix has been made to upstart, there is still
no way to install or upgrade to karmic on sparc.

If you attempt upgrade, upstart will fail or crash the system.

If you try to install the system from CD, booting from CD will fail with
a "Fast Data Access MMU miss" because not enough memory is allocated to
hold both the kernel and the initrd on newer ubuntu releases - Ubuntu
Hardy 8.04 was the last release to be able to boot from cd.  Lucid and
up have solved the memory issue of the cd bootloader, but it does not
seem to load the sd driver so you cannot access any block devices even
though you have the correct scsi/ide driver loaded.

The only solution left is to install Hardy and then do an LTS upgrade to
Lucid - mind you that you might have an issue with apparmor so you
should probably remove that package before upgrading.

Quinn

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Title:
  karmic boot hung after /scripts/init-bottom

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  After applying updates to karmic on September 15, 2009, the machine no
  longer boots. It hangs after running /scripts/init-bottom. This is the
  case for regular boot and recovery mode as well. A screen shot of the
  console is attached.

  The machine successfully booted with updates on September 14, 2009.

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