On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > Now, I found plenty of patches in your linux page... My question is: Do I
> > have to applies some of these patches? To linux-2.3.x, right?
> Let's start from basics:
> 1. What hardware do you have,
> a - Brick, unipack style
> b - Oblong tower
> c - Big ATX case
> d - something else?
> 2. What PROM version do you have? If your background is blue,
> press and hold ctrl-alt-w, then powercycle (you need three hands,
> or too hands and a foot to accomplish that).
> a - 2.xx
> b - 3.xx
Thanks for the patience. My hardware is 1a, 2b. At Boot, a white
background apears with:
[logo] JavaStation
[ ] OpenBoot 3.11.2, 40 MB
....
> When you answer these questions we may select an appropriate
> bootstrap sequence for you, with PROLL or without one.
> This is your decision table:
> 2a 2b
> 1a No Proll, kernel 2.2 PROLL, kernel 2.2
> 1b|1c No Proll, kernel 2.3 PROLL, kernel 2.3 with patches
I've already choosed proll id07, with kernel 2.2.12. And it boots & mounts
the root from nfs.
And I sucessfully booted a nfsroot with a copy of a redhat6.0 (with a
little of touch, such eliminating fdisk).
Thanks for such nice port!
Aldrin. "Caution! Under no circumstances confuse the mesh with the
Area de Ingenieria interleave operator, except under confusing circumstances!"
CEC U.Chile The INTERCAL Programming Language Revised Reference Manual
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