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Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.



On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 03:52:13PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Aug 20, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> >Well, the sarge 2.4 miboot floppies already installs a 2.6 kernel (or 
> >should),
> >and if what you are hinting at is on-the-fly takeover of kernels, this 
> >is not
> >possible (yet :).
> 
> That's exactly what I was proposing (on-the-fly takeover of kernels).  
> I didn't realize it was "not possible (yet :)".  Since miboot does 
> essentially that, it can't be hard.

Nope, miboot loads the kernel. First it is miboot running and then it launches
the kernel, it is not two different kernels.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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