Bug#32421: Bootdisk reboots on Toshiba 3010CT
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:55:57 +0000 (GMT), Arrigo Triulzi <a.triulzi@ic.ac.uk> said:
> I have this terrible worry about 2.2 coming out: I think I read
> somewhere that you need to build it with bzImage 'cos it is bigger
> than 2.0. How is this going to work under Toshiba laptops? I can
> happily boot a zImage but not a bzImage (tried it last night, it
> definitely reboots after finishing the Loading linux..., using a
> floppy helps!) so what are we going to do about 2.2 kernels? It is
> obviously a Toshiba "feature" but clearly we have to adapt to it
> because Toshiba isn't going to fix it for Linux.
Hopefully we can move to a more cross-platform boot loader such as
grub which can make all this work. I'm not a kernel / hardware expert
though, so I don't know for sure it would solve the problems.
> Should there be some sort of intermediate boot as in:
> LILO (bootloader)->intermediate boot loader->kernel
Well, you can load the kernel from one disk and then the root
filesystem from another, I guess that's another alternative.
> On a separate note: we used to have a debian-syadmin mailing list in
> Germany where we discussed "many machine" issues, as in sites with
> large number of Debian boxes. There were so few of us that it died
> miserably but I really feel that we should try to revive the
> discussion. Let me clarify: it is all very well to test upgrades and
> installations on a one-machine basis but there are sites, like mine,
> which count Debian boxes in 10s and have a total installed base of
> perhaps 200+. This means that upgrading one-by-one is not too
> attractive and neither are (were, of course ;-)) issues like xterm
> becoming xterm-debian breaking compatibility with Suns and other
> non-Linux *NIX boxes. I am very grateful for the, undoubtedly
> heated, discussions we held on xterm-debian and for the option to
> keep the xterm name in (actually, to add it to the installation-time
> options). It is issues like this which really need to be resolved.
Wichert Ackkermann seems to be building up steam on how to do this.
See the mail list archives in Dec on debian-devel or debian-policy.
Obviously, it's not really a problem we on the boot-floppy team can
solve. I think Enrique is serious about trying to make dbootstrap
completely scriptable a la Sun's `Quickinstall' or whatever it's
called. I think it would be great if the boot floppies could load
it's configuration from a network ``boot server'' or whatever (either
using http or some other simple network protocol).
> At the moment I work with "gold standard" disks, i.e. I have a list
> of packages which are installed and some auto-configuration scripts
> (trivial) which allow me to build off an NFS server with
> pre-installed images in under 10mins. This is 100% site specific
> though...
> I would really like to know if this is of interest to anyone or I am
> the only idiot committing so heavily to Debian :-)
See above.
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