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Re: 2.2r3 and boot-floppies



On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 10:56:55PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> > its a misconfiguration, sysrq is turned on and this happens to break
> > the arrow keys on some keyboards.  sysrq needs to stay off on powerpc
> > for the timebeing, none of the powerpc kernel hackers use it so its
> > almost invariably broken.  
> 
> Has anyone filed a grave bug against the PowerPC kernel (must be
> kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-pmac )?

the person reporting the problem was using 2.2.19pre17 packages from
proposed-updates.  i am not sure if this exact problem existed in
2.2.18* 

> Is anyone going to attempt to fix this for a Potato update?

rebuilding 2.2.19 kernel-image packages with sysrq turned off should
fix the arrow key problem.  the rootdisk issue is going to take
someone with a taste for kernel hacking.  and an oldworld powermac
with a floppy drive. 

> > the other issue is the boot-floppies are broken since the root disk
> > prompt won't accept enter (or anything) to continue.  
> 
> Is this related?  It's a kernel issue, right?

yes its a kernel issue that appeared in 2.2.18pre21 (er well thats the
first debian kernel to exhibit it) i am not sure if anyone has tested
2.2.19 i don't think it changed any related code.  i don't have a mac
with a floppy drive so i can't test this.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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