Re: Rh-7.2 beta feb 2002 available?

[Bob Lindell <lindell ISI EDU>]

> Bob Lindell wrote:
> 
> >>Innocent whistle.... it'll certainly work on a sx164.....
> >>actually there has been additional work to make it work on older 
> >>machines but the real problem from my point of view is lack of available 
> >>HW to test for failure. it it works, great but it's the ones that fail 
> >>that I get reports back on in the beta test program that I have trouble 
> >>with because I generally don't have the HW around to work on eg 
> >>UP1500.... all I can say is that best efforts were made
> >>
> >
> >Does the upcoming RedHat 7.2 kernel include the following patches that
> >went into 2.4.11?
> >
> >http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/axp-list/msg06281.html
> >
> I believe these are all ported back.
> Now, this may not be the final kernel used, but it's  worthwhile checking...
> 
> ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/incoming/alpha

This kernel didn't boot on my PC164.  Normally, a rawhide 2.4.9-xx kernel
hangs part way through the bootup process.  In this case, the -32
kernel couldn't find my root filesystem, which is off a ncr53c8xx
controller.

I'm willing to test another kernel if you have one.

Bob