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Re: [Fwd: Alpha Debian Netinst]



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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