Bug#31618: Frozen boot floppies don't work on Tosh laptop.
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 11:46:40AM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
> > Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> said:
> >
> > The tecra issue and the gate A20 issue are the same thing. The tecra
> > kernel used the same compression method of the "normal" kernel (they were
> > both bzImage, too big for zImage). It was patched to clear the cache and
> > check that the A20 gate was properly enabled.
>
> I am experiencing the same problems on a IBM Thinkpad 600.
>
> Is it posible to investigate what kind of trouble -- if any -- there
> would be to put this kind of patch in the default images, making the
> "tecra" image the only one?
On http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/ (where the original patch
came from) says:
"Unfortunately, Philip Hands reports that the above patch makes some
people with other non-laptop computers unable to boot." Is that you,
Philip?
> As a secondary note, are you planning to make a tecra disks set?
boot-floppies_2.1.5 will have tecra disks again, after our unsuccesful
attemp in boot-floppies_2.1.4 . I'm just waiting for Herbert to upload a
tecra kernel.
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Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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