Re: IBM Netvista problem / help

From: 'Matthew Harrell' (mharrell@bittwiddlers.com)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 15:52:18 EST

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: BTW, the patch to linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S (below)
: was written when that .S file was using Intel asm syntax.
: That file is now in gas syntax, so the patch needs a
: little modification. If you can't do it, let me know
: and I'll do it.

Well, I dd'ed the 2.2.17pre13 kernel with the setup.S patch onto a floppy
and tried it nothing different happened. I still got the

    Loading.............................................
      (2 minute, 15 second pause)
    Uncompressiing Linux...

    invalid compressed format (err=2)

    -- System halted

I'll try it again with a 2.4 kernel and try sticking it directly on the new
hard drive once I find all the cables to hook an IDE drive to my system.

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