Subject: Re: Red Hat Rawhide/Alpha
From: Praveen Srinivasan (psrin0@pop.uky.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 27 1999 - 18:35:18 AKST
This may seem like a perfectly obvious question to most people on the list,
but what exactly is rawhide? Is it a beta of a particular distribution?
Praveen Srinivasan
Chris Kloiber wrote:
> Greetings to all,
>
> I am successfully (sorta) running the Red Hat Rawhide/Alpha I
> downloaded from the FTP site last Saturday. (11/20/1999) My hardware is
> a 164SX machine with IDE hard drives and a Matrox Mystique video card.
> The machine runs really nice after updating to the 2.2.13 kernel with
> the CY82C693 IDE patch. My only problem is that the kernel must be
> loaded from floppy. Neither aboot nor milo can read the ext2 filesystems
> corectly from the hard drive, but once the kernel is loaded the drives
> are accessible. It's not a problem with my compiled kernel, as the
> stock kernel also has this problem. I think that between 6.0 and this
> Rawhide, I have noticed a subtle difference in the way ext2 partitions
> are formatted, with much fewer copies of the superblock being created
> now. This seems to have broken both milo and aboot, and could explain
> why Red Hat hasn't released 6.1 for Alpha yet. Has anyone any idea where
> to get an updated version of either aboot or milo (i'm not too picky,
> but I'd like both). I have tried to compile milo without success, but my
> talents don't include serious programming. Can the maintainers of both
> aboot and milo please patch these required programs and release
> something soon?
>
> Thanks for letting me rant.
>
> Chris Kloiber
>
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