Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Jure Pečar wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:16:14 +0300
>Sergey Tikhonov <tsv at solvo.ru> wrote:
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>>Thanks. Depending on what you have installed on your machine (AC1 is 
>>prerefered) you could
>>try to build vanilla kernel starting from 2.6.12 or try to play with 
>>kernel SRPM for AC2:
>>ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/2.0/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4axp.src.rpm
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>On my AS4100 the kernel on this image resets the machine early on (will
>have to setup serial console to see the exact point where). However srm
>then offers "info 3" and "info 8", which appear to be some kind of dumps.
>If these are usefull, I can post them somewhere.
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>However, debian 2.6.15-1-smp boots to the point where initrd figures out it
>has no disks (qlogic 1020 looks borken or not present; I didn't check) and
>drops you to busybox shell.
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>Debian 2.4.27-2-smp runs fine.
>
>Again, if there's interest, I'm willing to set up this AS4100 somewhere
>online, with accessible srm (some telnet-to-serial I guess).
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Certainly, there is an interest. :) I would love to have access.
Good news that 2.6.15 smp kernel works - there is possibility we could 
make it work too.

Thank you,
Sergey.

tsv at solvo.ru


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