Re: survey: latest versions successfully booted?

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> >   I'm currently running a 5.99.27 GENERIC kernel on my A4000 with the
> > CyberStorm III (69060) on a 5.0_BETA userland (and the 5.0_BETA GENERIC
> > kernel prior to that) with little problem.  I managed to get a native
> > build of 5.0_BETA completed after a few restarts (nbawk/awk seem to have
> > a sporadic failure that I haven't tracked down yet).
> > 
> >   I've also run 5.0_BETA kernel (and I think userland) on my A2000 with
> > the Zeus card (68040).  I also was running a recent -current kernel on 
> > that machine as well, testing the time_t backward compatibility.
>
> Michael: which OS/bootloader configurations are supposed to work?

  The A4000 is using the 5.0_BETA (as of Nov 1 or earlier) 
/usr/mdec/bootxx_ffs and /usr/mdec/boot.  The A2000 is probably using a 
similar version of /usr/mdec/boot and my runbootblock program from 
AmigaDOS (the Zeus SCSI driver never has been able to boot from non-ADOS 
partitions).

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Michael L. Hitch                        mhitch%montana.edu@localhost
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University        Bozeman, MT     USA