Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 won't boot on alpha (fwd)
Hello,
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 07:03:52PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:30:56PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> > The SRM-HOWTO says netbooting with "aboot" is broken: there's a way to
> > make a netbootable (using bootp) image using the kernel source tree
> > code under arch/alpha/boot. As I said, though, I've not had any need
> > for that functionality, and I haven't tried it. It's possible that the
> > SRM-HOWTO included with the "aboot" source is out of date and therefore
> > mistaken about netbooting being broken.
>
> Ah, that sounds like a bug in the SRM-HOWTO then, yes. Thanks to Helge, the
> aboot package includes a "netabootwrap" command that can be used to make
If I gt a patch for the SRM-HOWTO (preferably after testing) I can
include it both upstream and in the Debian package.
Greetings
Helge
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