Re: Can't tftpboot my Netwinder...

[Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>]

Philip Blundell wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 19:31, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > So I began to reinstall into the other partition, the one that used to 
> > have RedHat.  It worked well except for one thing: "Install the 
> > operating system kernel and modules" failed because 
> > netwinder/images-1.44/rescue.bin does not exist!  This must be fixed 
> > before the woody release: either we need to generate rescue.bin, or have 
> > the installer install the kernel from a different file.
> Crumbs, yeah.  I see that the file is actually in images-2.88.  Would
> you file a bug against the boot-floppies for this?  Set the severity to
> "serious".
Done.

> >    * Documentation should mention the need to disable noinitrd in
> >      cmdappend.
> I wouldn't expect most people to have "noinitrd" in there in the first
> place, but I guess it can't hurt to mention it.  I guess this should be
> another bug report, at normal severity this time.
Done.  This is important for anyone using recent 2.4 netwinder kernels 
who needs to use the boot floppies (for rescue, etc.).

Thanks,
--

-Adam P.

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