Bug#63298: boot-floppies: [Alpha-Floppies] Usage of kernel 2.2 ext-fs features breaks compatibility with older MILO

[Michael Holzt <kju@flummi.de>]

On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 04:00:20PM -0400, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> Unfortunately, this is a known issue.  The 2.2 kernel is too big to
> fit on a floppy with MILO, so the rescue disk is not directly bootable
> from MILO. 

You still didn't got the point. I was using the rescue.bin out of
the images-1.44 directory of disks 2.2.12-2000-04-26. I have an (quiet old)
MILO in the flash of my machine. I tried to boot from this disk using
'boot fd0:/linux.gz root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1', which failed. When i
tried 'ls fd0' i got only trash.

I took a blank disk on a pc, used 'mke2fs -O none /dev/fd0', mounted the
disk made from the image, and copied all files from the image disk to my new
disk. Using this disk i was able to boot.

Hence my suggestion, that the disk images are using kernel 2.2 ext2fs
features, because that was what i turned off with '-O none'.


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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards

Michael Holzt