It will let you know what happened, and what to fix.
- Jared
Alex Gitelman spewed:
> Hi, everebody
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> Here is the list of problems with kernels 3.64 - 3.67:
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> 1. Use of ps -u produces (always) floating exception. (exactly as I
> wrote. Not a floating point exception)
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> 2. When booting from floppy with the root on floppy as well, kernel
> faults to mount root fs as read-write. Mounts it as read only therefore
> it doesn't make any sense for fixing any problems.
>
> For the following I found a solution and can share it but rather
> fathers-creators look on it. :)
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> 3. Since I first install Linux several month ago I have been loading it using
> loadlin. And in this case I never saw color directories. Why? I don't know.
> When I loaded any kernel from floppy (even if root is set to hard drive
> regular partitions. In other words it's exactly the same kernel as I use
> with loadlin.) - colors are ok. It happened untill I installed kernel
> 1.3.45 than I discovered that that kernel sets wrong screen mode and all
> lines are cut in the middle. It forced me to go to setup.S and fix it
> manually. Now everething worked and I found out that colors work too. I
> think it was a feature of kernel not my manipulation. Anyway next kernel
> was 3.64 and colors didn't work again. So I just changed part of video setup
> for that from 3.45. Now everething work and if somebody experienced the
> same problem I can mail this new setup.S. What really happened I don't
> know 'cause I am not a specialist in PC interrupts e.t.c.
>
> I use Oak oti 087
>
> Alex Gitelman
> alexgit@sfsu.edu
> http://futon.sfsu.edu/~alexgit
> (510)-848-9014
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