BETA1 announcement

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:15:13AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
>  > Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > > 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.
> 
> Ah, I forgot about the hints file and that it is required
> for console.  Thanks for pointing that out.
> 
>  > If you compiled them into your kernel you might have had
>  > better luck, but it's still not supported.
> 
> Well, I didn't compile anything.  I just took the install
> kernel from the BETA1 distributiin (which is compiled from
> GENERIC, I assume).

Right, by default the hints are not compiled in.  Anyway, there are
other issues, like the 4.x loader will try to load /kernel instead of
/boot/kernel/kernel, and maybe others.  Just use the 6.1 loader
instead :)

Kris
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