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Re: testing wanted: debian-installer, now with 2.6.15



* Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
> * Jay Estabrook wrote:
> > Tried the netinstall CD from 02/07/06 on LX164, and found the
> > following:
> > 
> > 1. installer used 2.6.15 kernel with LEGACY_START option
> > 2. installed kernel 2.4.27 with LEGACY_START option
> > 
> > Neither of those will boot on DS15/DS25/ES45 (among others)
> > because of the LEGACY_START. AFAIK, all SRM console machines will
> > boot kernels without LEGACY_START.
> 
> Yupp, my fault. This was discussed a while back already, but I
> forgot about it. I'll disable LEGACY_START for the -generic flavour
> next weekend...
> 
> > Only MILO-based machines require LEGACY_START.
> 
> ... and introduce a new flavour for MILO-based machines.

http://people.debian.org/~nobse/kernel/linux-2.6/

The -generic and -alpha flavours have LEGACY_START_ADDRESS disabled,
the -legacy flavour enabled.

                Norbert



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