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Re: Problem netbooting Linux 2.2.x



Ken Yap wrote:
>>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.

>I seriously doubt if mknbi-linux would be the source of your problems. It
>has a simple job to do, just put the kernel image inside a tagged
>image. It would not interfere with the kernal image, which is compressed
>anyway.  I think you have to look to see why 2.2 kernels have problems
>on your machine. Maybe try a more recent one, e.g. 2.2.9?

Hi Ken,

For some reasons i do not get any mail from the list anymore. Last was
from 04/25/99.
I subscribed again today and got a positive reply, but i found your
reply to my posting only in the mailinglist archive.

Conerning my netboot problem: I wonder if you didn't receive my complete
posting. I quoted from the 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]

What are those 'serious bougs'?

Thank you for your help

Heinrich
-- 

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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