BETA1 announcement

[Oliver Fromme]

Hi,

I tried loading a 6.1-BETA1 kernel (the default GENERIC
kernel from the BETA1 distribution) on a system with
the /boot directory (including /boot/loader) from a 4.x
installation.  To be exact, it's 4.9-RELEASE.

It didn't work.  The kernel didn't even print the copyright
line or anything else, it just hung.  Is that expected
behaviour?  Can a 6.x kernel not be loaded with the 4.x
boot infrastructure?

To be honest, I had expected that the kernel at least
booted into single user mode.  Or maybe that it panicked
when trying to execute init(8).  Or maybe even earlier,
but I didn't expect that it hangs immediately.  What's
happening there?

Best regards
   Oliver

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