Re: Still unable to 'Initialize a Linux Partition' with bf 3.0.21
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 11:03:28PM +0100, Andreas W?st wrote:
> Hi Colin
>
> > On Sun, 2002-03-17 at 14:09, Andreas W??st wrote:
> >
> >>> Anyways, have you tried diffing the .configs between the 2.4.9 apus
> >>> kernel and your 2.4.17 kernel?
> >>
> >> Nope! What should I be looking for?
> >
> > I don't know; like important platform-specific config options that you
> > might have missed.
>
> Having a look at it in the next days!
>
> >> I am now going to file a bug against bf's, as Chris advised me.
> >
> > OK, but as far as I know no one is actively working on and testing apus
> > support in the boot-floppies, so it is unlikely this bug will be fixed
> > (ever, since the b-f code base is being terminated after woody).
>
> Testing? Well, I do!! Quite intensively unfortunately..
>
> Well, if it doesn't get fixed, it would mean that a whole release would be
> uninstallable by network for all the x-surf users outthere without tricking
> around? (but to be fair: there doesn't seem to be too much users with a
> x-surf NIC, so I can understand your point!)
>
If it really is a kernel issue, that's pretty easy to fix (for us). If it's
a dbootstrap bug, that's where we'll have difficulty, with no developers
on that architecture.
That's why I'm curious to see if you can mke2fs and mount from console 2;
if so, it's probably dbootstrap and hard, if not it's probably kernel and
easy.
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