Re: Going from 2.2.12 to 2.2.17pre10

[Michael Lundkvist <ml@epact.se>]

Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es> writes:

> On 6 Jul 2000, Michael Lundkvist wrote:
>
> >
> > Please don't tell me my 2.2.12 partitioned disk is wrong. :)
>
> What's your version of fdisk ?

It seems like Hollis Blanchard was right so I'm doing a reinstall with
2.2.16 instead.

>
> Under 2.2.12 dd if=/dev/hda of=xxx bs=512 count=1 and see what comes out.
> Can PPCBUG actually boot from these disks ?
>

Nope. I think I'll go for Bugboot. Ramix also talked about the
possibility of modifying PPCBug to add support for the Ramix 233.

> >
> > Where do I go for the best LinuxPPC 2.4 kernel for MVME-boards? Is it
> > fsmlabs Bitkeeper repository?
>
> I have 2.4.0-test2 running on an MVME2600, look at:
>
> 	ftp://vlab1.iram.es/pub/linux-2.4
>
> did not try the MVME2400 yet (they are all in use for real tasks, I'm
> waiting for more and have to develop on the 16Mb MVME2600 :-(). But I
> only have SCSI disks or NFSRoot.
>

OK. I'll try that on a MVME2400.

We have ~25 MVME2400 just lying around here since they haven't been
able to get VxWorks working properly on them yet. :)

> I have a 2.2.16 kernel compiled but never booted, I could give you R/O
> access to my BK trees if you want (but the machine on which they are is
> not up 100% of the time).
>
> 	Gabriel.

How much difference is there between that and the main kernel?

The main reason I'm moving from the 2.2.12 is that it wasn't stable
under load on the MVME2400. I figured it was pointless to try to debug
it on an old kernel.

/Micke

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