Nathan, On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 07:21:46PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Steve Langasek: > > I will be preparing local debian-installer images based on these kernels > > as well, which I should have ready this weekend, for those who would > > prefer to test that way. > I've believe that I've been bitten by this problem (Bug #243992), so I'm > looking forward to finding out if this fixes me up. Since my alpha is > currently sans-OS, I can't test out the kernel packages themselves, I'll > be waiting for the d-i images based on this kernel. Another added bonus > for me is that the 2.4.26-2 kernels should include the fix to be able to > install onto a DAC960 controller (where my disks are), and hopefully fix > the problem I was having with my 4-port NIC (the PCI bug), thus solving > all my d-i alpha woes in one stroke. You can now find both a cdrom-mini.iso CD image and a boot.img netboot image under <http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/fixed-alpha-kernels/>. Please test out whichever is appropriate and let me know how it goes. > As a random aside, what are the chances of the 2.4.26-2 (or greater) > kernel being used in d-i before the release? If they're not very good, > do you think it would be possible to get the patch that Herbert applied > to 2.4.26-2 (Bug #244585) backported to the version which will be used? > It'd be nice to finally be able to install onto the Mylex controller... The sid d-i daily builds already use kernel-image-2.4.26-1-generic. I don't know offhand if it's 2.4.26-2 or not, but as soon as the PCI init bug is fixed in the archive, I'll definitely be updating. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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