On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 03:22:51AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 12:57:01PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 09:11, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > > > I have updated my XFS enabled set of boot-floppies to use the final > > > 2.4.19 kernel along with a patch to fix a small file corruption bug in > > > XFS 2.4.19 split patches. > > > > Can you please elaborate a bit on that bug and the patch? > > some dumbass added video=ofonly to the boot args in the miboot image. > since most oldworlds don't have OF video it resulted in the screen > just going blank. i have two failure reports for official debian > boot-floppies and two success reports with my fixed version. > > ive been seeing various reports like this for a bit now, i just hadn't > bothered to care till today when i had two people wonder into > #debianppc within 2 hours of each other reporting identical symtoms on > two different oldworld models (8500 and 7200). > > potato did not have video=ofonly, its completly unnecessary since the > kernel supports all oldworld video hardware.
Huh? Many oldworlds do in fact have OF video; it was added because of a long list of people that the potato kernel could not do video support for. I've used a couple myself. I'm not surprised that there's a bunch it doesn't work on, though.... we may need to offer both sets. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
