rescue disks for a tecra

1997-01-03 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Does anybody know where I can get these? Bruce mentioned a bug in the exisisting set, but didn't mention what the bug was. He's off line for a while, so if anyone else could point me in the direction of a working set of boot disks for a tecra for 1.2, I'd appreciate it. I used make-kpkg to

Re: rescue disks for a tecra

1997-01-03 Thread Kirk Hilliard
I must admit that only my second thought when I read Bruce's note was for his family's and his property's safety, my first being, Oh no! There goes the new boot disks. The problem is that on Tecra 710/720/730 laptops (I don't know about the 500 series) lilo cannot load a bzImage. With the rescue

Re: rescue disks for a tecra

1997-01-03 Thread Martin Stromberg
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] At http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/, Jens Maurer discusses the problem and gives a kernel patch which works around it, a patch which Bruce was going to incorporate it into the next set of boot disks. I would try it myself as a service to other Tecra owners if