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- The file "kern-0.06.tar.gz" contains the executable for the linux/68k
- kernel version 0.06.
-
- The new features of this kernel over 0.05pl3 include:
-
- *) Support for the 68040, including the 68040 floating point softare
- package. The 68040 support has not been tested yet.
-
- *) Support for multiple discontiguous memory chunks.
-
- *) linux/386 patches up to 0.99pl13 applied.
-
- Please let me know if this kernel runs on your machine, and the type
- of machine you have. The compressed filesystem in ../filesys can be
- used as a ramdisk to boot with the kernel.
-
- To boot the kernel on an Amiga, use the supplied "bootstrap" command.
- Note that the "bootstrap" program has changed from the previous
- version released. The new version *must* be used with the new kernel.
-
- To boot with the ramdisk image, uncompress the filesystem image and
- type:
-
- bootstrap -r filesys
-
- To boot from a floppy image, uncompress the filesystem image and copy
- it to a floppy (possibly using the "flat:" handler). Then type:
-
- bootstrap
-
- If you somehow have a bootable linux/68k minix filesystem on a SCSI
- hard disk partition, you can boot from the partition by supplying the
- device number to the bootstrap program:
-
- bootstrap -b [number]
-
- The major number for SCSI disks is "0x08", and the minor number dpends
- on the disk and partition. linux/68k searches for SCSI disks from
- target 0 to target 7, and for Logical Units 0 through 7 on each
- target. The minor number can be calculated by (disk_number)*16 +
- partition_number. The first disk found is disk 0. Partition 0 is the
- whole disk. Partition 1 is the first partition found in the
- RigidDiskBlock partition table on the Amiga hard disk. Thus 0x0801 is
- the first partition on the first disk found. 0x0818 is the second
- partition on the second hard disk found.
-
- I have two SCSI hard disks. The first is at target 5, LUN 0 and the
- second at target 6, LUN 0. The first has three partitions, used for
- Linux and the second has 4 partitions used for AmigaDOS.
-
- Thus I have:
-
- devnum linux device name
- ------ ------------------------------------
- 0x0800 sda (the entire disk at target 5)
- 0x0801 sda1 (1st partition on disk at target 5)
- 0x0802 sda2 (2nd partition on disk at target 5)
- 0x0803 sda3 (3rd partition on disk at target 5)
- 0x0810 sdb (the entire disk at target 6)
- 0x0811 sdb1 (1st partition on disk at target 6)
- 0x0812 sdb2 (2nd partition on disk at target 6)
- 0x0813 sdb3 (3rd partition on disk at target 6)
- 0x0814 sdb4 (4th partition on disk at target 6)
-
- My Linux root partition is on the 2nd partition of my first drive, so
- I boot with:
-
- bootstrap -b 0x0802
-
-
- Hamish.Macdonald@bnr.ca
-