Bug#31618: Frozen boot floppies don't work on Tosh laptop.
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:16:08 +0000, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> said:
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 11:46:40AM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
>>> > Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> said:
>> 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?
> Yes. Someone on the debian lists reported that some motherboards
> locked up on the tecra set when we first applied the patch, so I
> passed the info on, and he credited me for some reason --- I never
> saw the behaviour myself, and reading the patch, there would have to
> be something pretty strange about a m/boards that lock up on it ---
> but people reported it as happening at the time.
>> 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.
> An alternative approach might be to use a zImage, rather than
> bzImage, but I suppose the kernel will not fit unless its bzImage ?
> zImage kernels don't provoke the problem on tecras.
Well, 2.1.4 (and up, I think) are zImage kernels rather than bzImage.
However, people are still having problems.
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