Re: upgrade path

[Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>]

On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> From: Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>
> > P.S. One reason to have 1.1 is because the base disk will work on the 
> > thinkpads that reject the 1.2 and 1.3.  I think this could be fixed if we 
> > released a rescue disk that doesn't need to be a bzimage (is that the 
> > right term?).
> 
> Oh, curses upon people who design incompatible caches. Have you tried the
> latest cache-invalidate-after-A20-gate patches with the thinkpad?

Yes, curses on them, where's my voodoo doll :-).  Unfortunately, I have no
clue what the cache-invalidate-after-A20-gate is and I don't have a
thinkpad, I was just relaying concerns I've heard before.  If someone
understands what Bruce is talking about, and has a thinkpad that can be
tested, could you try this and send some step by step notes.  Maybe we can
make a section in the installation notes describing this.

Thanks Bruce,
Brandon

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