Re: powerpc/apus 2.2.8 boot floppies report.
On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:13:38AM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> Hello, ...
>
> here is my experimentation with the 2.2.8 boot fgloppies on apus :
>
> * the kernel used is too old, i hope next build will use a newer kernel (the
> current kernel package should be ok).
kernel-image-2.2.10-apus_2.2.10-9.deb, or is there a newer one? I'll
try to do another build real soon.
> * there is still problems with the keyboard configuration, apparently
> setting the prefix to "" makes dbootstrap search /amiga/amiga-fr.bmap,
> while amiga/amiga-fr.bmap is provided. I will revert to using a "amiga"
> prefix. How is it that this works for powermacs and other powerpc's ? what
> about the m68k guys ? Hartmut, What do you think about it ?
>
> * i will add the bootstrap program that is needed to launch linux on apus in
> a new $release/apus/bootstrap dir. is powerpc-specials the right place for
> this ?
Yes, powerpc-specials is the right place, I think.
> * I had problems when trying to read the recue.bin file while installing the
> kernel. it uses Amiga as prefix instead of apus. did fix that, but it
> still didn't want to install.
Did you commit that to CVS?
Dan
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