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.

Just wanted to update the list that this kernel did boot on my PC164
after I created an initrd.img for the SCSI drivers.  They got bumped
from the kernel.

Bob