Subject: Re: Red Hat Rawhide/Alpha
From: Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
Date: Sun Nov 28 1999 - 23:11:30 AKST
On 29 Nov 1999, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> On 28 Nov 1999 04:26:50 -0500, Chris Kloiber <ckloiber@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> >the ext2 partitions from milo but with the 'sparse superblocks' as you call
> >them way you get is a bunch of lines of useless garbage, as though milo is
> >looking at a data sector and trying to interpret it as a directory.
>
> Actually, both milo and aboot have/had problems with
> a) 4K block sizes b) new (2.2 kernel) fs features such as sparse
> superblocks/filetypes. If you make the /boot partition with
> mke2fs -O none it should read it OK.
>
> I believe the aboot in Raw Hide is fixed so that it can deal with these.
I just had a look in the SRPM and it does not really look that way.
Here if a patch that worked for me (with 4k-blocksize and filetype-feature).
It might overlap with your current patchset, so maybe you'll have to apply
some by hand. (patch attached)
--
with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
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does "DONT PANIC" give a hint ?
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