On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 01:36:42AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> writes: > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:06:36PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > I also don't know why this aboot.conf still has references to jensen as > > > > a subarchitecture. I haven't found any 2.4 jensen kernels in the > > > > archive, and everything I've found from debian-alpha suggests that there > > > > are no longer separate kernels for any architectures. > > > Afaik jensen is the last arch that needs its own kernel. We realy need > > > someone with a jensen to confirm or deny. > > There are no jensen 2.4 kernels in the archive, and the debian-alpha > > list archive shows only people saying that these unified 2.4 kernels > > *should* work on jensen. There's no reason to special-case jensen in > > d-i unless someone speaks up to say these kernels don't work for him. > > > Also all the other flavours need a confirm or deny. The coming milo > > > udebs need testing for flavours without srm. > > What other flavors are you referring to? MILO is its own beast, and > > MILO "flavors" don't correlate with anything on the kernel package side > > or in aboot. I would assume that all the MILO flavors that were > > required for woody are still required for sarge, since there's > > effectively no code change in this area (since MILO is, after all, a > > Linux 2.0 kernel). > Each alpha flavour has to test if the milo works and boots the generic > kernel and initrd right (once they are included on the CDs). > Do you know which flavours realy do need milo and which could just as > well use aboot? For the businesscard and netinstall cd less is more. Unfortunately, there are still cases where one may need to use MILO on any of the MILO-supporting Alphas, because SRM is not likely to be able to provide the needed hooks to initialize the BIOS on a third-party SCSI card to enable booting from attached devices. If you want a minimal list of just those archs that *require* MILO, for use on the < 540MB CDs, I've been going by the list on <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/alpha/ch-rescue-boot.html>, which shows only nautilus, ruffian, and xl as ARC-only subarchs; and SRM recently became available for nautilus. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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