PowerPC cd status

2000-03-21 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
So, with a tremendous effort from Ethan Benson, I now understand how to make new-world bootable CDs. A conversation with Ben told me my problem with floppy-booting on oldworld, so that should be fixed soon also. At that point I am looking at (with luck) having the first CD be new-world bootable a

Re: PPC Potato install from hell...

2000-03-21 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Brian Macy wrote: > > Fortunately it is now installed and behaving happily... hopefully this > > torture will pay for itself in the long run with upgrades being trivial. > > > > I'm frightened to think what installing Debian on an Alpha is going to

compiling PPC kernels using binutils-2.9.5.0.22-5

2000-03-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Since binutils-2.9.5.0.22-5, the final stages in the kernel build process fail: | objcopy vmlinux.elf vmlinux.elf --add-section=.note=note \ | --add-section=sysmap=../../../System.map -R .comment | objcopy: vmlinux.elf: File truncated | make[1]: *** [vmlinux.elf] Error 1 It looks like ob

Re: compiling kernel.

2000-03-21 Thread Maciej Matysiak
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:14:01 -0800 Peter Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Serial driver version 4.92 (2000-1-27) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ > > SERIAL_PCI enabled Machine check in kernel mode. > As with other recent messages, your problem is that you've turned on > the pc-style serial po