New AC2 release candidate test boot cd image

[Oliver Falk]

Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> After some time I was able to cook new test boot cd image. It contains 
> something that hopely become AC2. :)
> There are no install packages on the image, so the "rescue" mode is one 
> that you could test.
> The new kernel 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 with Jay's patches to support big 
> Alphas and TGA video adapter is used.
> The smp version of that kernel doesn't work yet. Everything is compiled 
> by gcc 4.0.1 (although there is an issue - it
> still generates the code that produced unaligned access exception 
> (hopely it will get fixed)).
> I would like to ask the interested people to try to boot test boot image 
> and post the results here.
> So far, it does boot on my 164LX (SRM).
> 
> Here is the link:
> ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/development/test/ac2-qboot1.iso 

So far it looks fine. Tried booting it on my AS1000A. It see's the 
DAC960 controller and the discs and also formats the filesystems 
correctly...

I'm still missing auto-partitioning that actually works on Alpha. :-)

Best,
  Oliver