Re: 2.2r3 and boot-floppies
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 04:32:27PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I don't think all ports have rebuilt yet. PowerPC seems to have
> > serious kernel troubles.
>
> its a misconfiguration, sysrq is turned on and this happens to break
> the arrow keys on some keyboards. sysrq needs to stay off on powerpc
> for the timebeing, none of the powerpc kernel hackers use it so its
> almost invariably broken.
Has anyone filed a grave bug against the PowerPC kernel (must be
kernel-image-2.2.18pre21-pmac )?
Is anyone going to attempt to fix this for a Potato update?
> the other issue is the boot-floppies are broken since the root disk
> prompt won't accept enter (or anything) to continue.
Is this related? It's a kernel issue, right?
> > Do I need to think about another potato update for 2.2.19 kernels?
>
> IMO shipping a pre kernel when the real one is out is somewhat tacky
> at the least...
Yah, well, if I'm provided kernels/modules for i386 its pretty easy to
update the boot-floppies. I find that such minor kernel version
changes rarely break things (at least on i386).
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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