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



On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 11:09:35AM -0400, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> The intent of the code is that, if you boot from MILO, it will not ask
> you about 2.0 compatibility (since there is no point in doing so), and
> will always make the filesystem with '-O none -b 1024'.
[...]
> Can you boot with the 'debug' argument, and try to find the command
> that gets logged to the third console when you make the filesystem?

We seem to have a misunderstanding here. I downloaded the disk-images on a
pc, and used dd to copy them to a floppy. And then i tried to boot from this
disks using MILO. And this failed.

I didn't tried to make any filesystems. The problem is with the images.

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen / with kind regards

Michael Holzt


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