Bug#63298: marked as done ([alpha-floppies] 2.2.12-2000-04-26 incompatible with older MILO)
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Subject: boot-floppies: [Alpha-Floppies] Usage of kernel 2.2 ext-fs features breaks compatibility with older MILO
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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.
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Subject: bugs closed in boot-floppies 2.2.13
From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 12 May 2000 10:55:50 -0400
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The bug you have reported should be closed in boot-floppies 2.2.13,
now part of the potato Debian archive.
Changes:
boot-floppies (2.2.13) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
.
* new build of i386 boot-floppies fix several serious build problems
- base floppies invalid checksum
- compact flavor invalid rescue/root (closes: Bug#63454)
* Adam Di Carlo <aph@debian.org>
- top-level Makefile: pathcmd now uses absolute paths for updates
(closes: Bug#62730); fix all-lang-arch-docs rule, rename it to
'doc-web' since that is what it is for; cleanup and segment
documentation build rules a bit, thanks to Othmar
- base: add syslinux back for i386 so we can make a boot floppy
(closes: Bug#60928, Bug#63454, Bug#63455); add bsdutils back
- rescue: f#.txt changes suggested by Bruce Sass, J.A. Bezemer,
Guentcho Skordev, and Santiago Vila (closes: Bug#62938)
- README-Users.m4: minor Alpha patch from Adam C Powell IV
- control: to build Czech documentation we need cslatex and cspsfonts
and their depends, so add that to boot-floppies depends
- documentation/*: cleanup old entity references; adjust some entities
for web building; resync serial-console and nfsroot support based on
current dbootstrap settings; cosmetics; hack away at potato'isms;
correct and improve the downloadable file section
- dbootstrap: when writing fstab for nfs mounted partition, set the
option 'nolock', as suggested by Bjoern Brill
* Othmar Pasteka
- German updates; resync German documentation improvements to the
English version
* Bruce Sass
- documentation: fix the file naming, sync to 2.2.12 based on what is
in the archive (closes: Bug#48358)
* Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
- changes to busybox to get modconf to work. Details in busybox
changelog (closes: Bug#63315)
* Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
- added psaux device for sparc for UltraAXe systems.
- fix some mounting code (may have been fixed in 2.2.12)
(closes: Bug#62643)
- release.sh: fix install of linux-a.out and tftpboot images
- rootdisk: include ethtool aswell
- dbootstrap/partitionconfig: use -v1 for sparc, irregardless
* Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
- update to BootX 1.2.2 to fix some lockups
* David Huggins-Daines <dhd@debian.org>:
- rescue disk made with '-O none' so it works with MILO
(closes: Bug#63298)
* Michael Sobolev:
- dbootstrap: more work on language chooser functionality; this is not
yet shipped by default but should take the form of at least an i386
flavor at some point soon
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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