On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 12:57:01PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 09:11, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > I have updated my XFS enabled set of boot-floppies to use the final > > 2.4.19 kernel along with a patch to fix a small file corruption bug in > > XFS 2.4.19 split patches. > > Can you please elaborate a bit on that bug and the patch? some dumbass added video=ofonly to the boot args in the miboot image. since most oldworlds don't have OF video it resulted in the screen just going blank. i have two failure reports for official debian boot-floppies and two success reports with my fixed version. ive been seeing various reports like this for a bit now, i just hadn't bothered to care till today when i had two people wonder into #debianppc within 2 hours of each other reporting identical symtoms on two different oldworld models (8500 and 7200). potato did not have video=ofonly, its completly unnecessary since the kernel supports all oldworld video hardware. > Thanks for providing these boot-floppies. i hope someone finds them useful. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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