Bug#31618: Frozen boot floppies don't work on Tosh laptop.
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On Fri, 8 Jan 1999 17:57:38 +0000, Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> said:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 04:26:07PM +0000, Tim Morley wrote:
>> Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.1.4-1998-12-29 (AKA Current)
>> Severity: grave
>>
>> README-tecra says: > Tecras and other notebooks, and some PCs have
>> a problem where they > fail to flush the cache when switching on
>> the a20 gate (IIRC), which > is provoked by bzImage kernels, but
>> not by zimage kernels. > > As kernel-image-2.0.36 (the one used on
>> this boot-floppies) is a zimage > kernel, there's no need for a
>> separate rescue floppy, the normal one will > work.
>>
>> However on my Toshiba 490XCDT the main image doesn't work. It just
>> resets the system about where it should be starting the kernel. the
>> resc1440tecra.bin from the previos set (2.1.3-1998-12-18) works
>> fine. Looks like we have been a bit optimistic about new boot
>> images working 8-(
> Oh, well, I somehow was expecting that... (I hate laptops. A
> lot. Please someone donate me one for development). ;-)
I have a laptop and the non-tecra boot-disk works great.
> It looks like we still need "tecra" kernel (Herbert?) and floppies.
Are you sure this is the *tecra* issue and not the Gate20 issue?
Was anything different on the tecra disks or tecra kernel aside from
the the compression method of the kernel?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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