Bug#31618: marked as done ([laptop] Frozen boot floppies don't work on Tosh laptop)
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 16:26:07 +0000 (GMT)
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Subject: Frozen boot floppies don't work on Tosh laptop.
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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-(
Tim Morley
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