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Re: bugs 64500 and 64823



On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:40:52PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> writes:
> 
> > BTW, i guess another option would be to look at the place where we read
> > /proc/cmdline, and then set things up as if the boot arg cdrom was entered if
> > and only if we are on ppc and on the apus subarch. Which file should i look
> > for that ? mmm, maybe i should try some grepping, ...
> 
> Please, lets solve this generally rather than on an arch-by-arch
> basis.
> 
> dbootstrap should be clever enough to sense that a given CD-ROM is a
> normal, official one and act accordingly, e.g., suck that stuff in
> without further prompting.  This should be the case no matter what the
> cmdline argument were.  Rigth now this is not working, at least, not
> on i386 when I tested it from 2.2r0 or r1 (not sure).

Well, the problem is that it is not an official CDROM, but a copy of the
archive on harddisk. There is no sense to generate rescue.bin on apus, since
it is only used for getting the modules out of it. The kernel stays in the
native partition anyway, and it is not the one from rescue.bin who is used.

And it did work for potato r0 when i did an install (are we speaking about the
same thing, i booted on the cdrom, and installed potato as normal. When it
should have mounted rescue.bin, it unpacked drivers.tgz instead.

> > What is the time schedule for potato r2 ? any chance to have this included (at
> > least the documentation fix telling about the cdrom boot option, but we are
> > working on a kernel + bootstrapper upgrade for apus also).
> 
> This is a 2.2r3 issue... 2.2r2 is going out within a few hours and I'm
> not doing any more boot-floppies builds for it.

Not even a hand update of the install-apus.txt file ? 

Well i guess it is too late anyway, no problem, 

When is r3 scheduled for ?

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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