Problem netbooting Linux 2.2.x

[Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de>]

Hi,

I have been using netboot 0.8.1 for quite some time now without
troubles.
But starting with Linux 2.2.5 i get all sort of kernel crashes, mostly
during boot, but some times also during normal operation. The crashes
are sporadic and happen at random, so i first thought it was a hardware
problem. But with 2.0.36 all is ok.

browsing through my netboot archive i found this in gero's announcement
of netboot 0.9.0e:

[snip]
- Corrected mknbi-linux so that it now works with Linux kernel version
2.2.x.
  However please note that there are still some serious bugs in the
kernel
  which prevent it to work with netboot properly.
[snip]

Gero, could you please tell us more about these bugs, and if the
problems still persist?


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Heinrich Rebehn

University of Bremen
Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Department of Telecommunications -

E-mail: mailto:rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de
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