Bug#63298: boot-floppies: [Alpha-Floppies] Usage of kernel 2.2 ext-fs features breaks compatibility with older MILO

[kju@flummi.de]

Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A
Severity: grave

As it seems the debian boot disks for alpha are using a ext2fs with the 
new features introduced in kernel 2.2 turned on. This makes it unable to
load or boot from this disk using a older MILO. The original MILO images
from digital.com are based on 2.0.36 and cannot read this disk. People
using MILO from flash (like me) cannot easily load a newer MILO, because
the available fail safe boot floppies contains an old MILO as well.

After i made a new disk with the features explicit turned off and copied
the files from the debian boot disk to my new boot disk, i was able to
boot as normal.

I don't see any reason why the bootdisks are built with this feature on.

-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Kernel Version: Linux kju 2.3.99-pre3 #2 Thu Mar 30 18:14:02 CEST 2000 i686 unknown