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- From: s9100786@cumulus.csd.unsw.oz.au (Matthew Jackson)
- Subject: Re: Does bootlin.com work with the new kernel?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.234245.26885@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- Organization: School of Banking and Finance, University of New South Wales
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:42:45 GMT
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- Andrew J. Cosgriff ! (andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au) wrote:
- : joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
-
- : >In article <1992Dec13.193812.6958@tc.cornell.edu> torvalds@cc.helsinki.fi (Linus Torvalds) writes:
- : >>Linux version 0.99 is now available at nic.funet.fi, in the directory
- : >>pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus as both full source and patches against
- : >>0.98.6. It will probably show up on the other major sites soon.
-
- : >>NOTE!!! Use LILO-0.7 to load the 0.98pl5 and newer kernels: any older
- : >>version of lilo is liable to result in weird problems.
-
- : >What about bootlin.com? Does that still work?
-
- : I don't see why not...It's just that LILO 0.6 did weird things to 98p6 when
- : you booted it (apparently - nothing weird happened to me except I now have a
- : 1024 byte ramdisk, but i can live with that - I've got 8MB to play with,
- : anyway...)
-
- Bootlin works for me on 0.98pl6 - I used it after the pl6 problem was
- discovered to be lilo until I could download lilo 0.7.
-
- Cheers,
-
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- Matthew Jackson | Computing Officer
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