Re: Booting Apus

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 19:37, Giorgio Terzi wrote:=20
> Alle 18:03, domenica 13 ottobre 2002, Robert Johansson ha scritto:
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> > I have the same problem as you, and I'm using the same files (Debian
> > woody). I get an error message that linux.bin is too big to uncompress,
> > but I haven't had any time to test things out further. I know though th=
at
> > linux.bin is compressed with gzip. Maybe you can test uncompressing it =
and
> > report if it works better :)
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> Yes you're true, there is a simple patch to bootstrap that i have done bu=
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> not still submitted. This because bootstrap can only handle compressed=20
> kernels with no more than 2 Megs of dimension.=20
> I will submit this patch to CVS during this week!

Yes, you committed it on May 21st 2001, and the 010623 boothack release
has the fix. It's just that the boothack that comes with the
boot-floppies is outdated.


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Earthling Michel D=E4nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast