From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 19:31:24 +0000 Subject: Further changes in UltraPenguin 1.0.9 Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Hi! I've updated the ftp area of UltraPenguin. I've tried to fix all bugs with tftp/floppy install I discovered, particularly: timeconfig/ntsysv are fixed boot loader should be installed just fine plus I've added a bunch of new things: support for swaps 48k-2GB on sparc32, at the moment (due to kernel bug) just 88k-2GB on sparc64, but that will change to 32TB once that bug is fixed (waiting for Linus to merge it in) support for SMP kernels (on SMP machines you should get the SMP kernel as label smp in silo, plus with the rc.sysinit changes (I'll make rpm tomorrow) I've made today you can just switch from SMP to UP and back at any time by just typing a different boot label. added rescue images: rescue.img is a floppy image meant as second floppy with the boot floppy created by the installer (that's a new thing as well) tftprescue.img is a swiss-army knife for anyone in trouble. Due to some strange kernel bug on sparc64 it will just work on sparc32 (the kernel has problems to boot if somebody touched space above 4MB virtual from PROM mapping - I'm still investigating) New rpms: silo-0.8.2 a new, fixed version of the boot loader mkbootdisk this is similar to that thingie in rawhide on Intel genromfs this is needed by mkbootdisk and by any program creating bootable romfs floppies I'm close to get bootable CDs working and installing, but if you want that soon, please test if you can what I'm just putting out and report any bugs you'll see to me. Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.126 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________