BETA1 announcement

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 04:00:53PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I think so.

One problem is that the hints will be missing, so you won't get a
console.  If you compiled them into your kernel you might have had
better luck, but it's still not supported.

Kris
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