Subject: Re: Installation boot diskettes hang, so do dosbooted kernels,
To: Thomas Mueller <tmueller@bluegrass.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/08/2001 08:05:41
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> OpenBSD 2.9 floppy29.fs diskette made it through the boot, and some of the Linux
> kernels make it through, though not all.  If there were a hardware conflict,
> OpenBSD and Linux shouldn't make it through the boot.  Now I wish there were a
> send-pr to run under DOS, though I don't really know where the snag is.

You can send-pr through the web page.

> Where do you get 1.5.2?  I don't think it's available for download yet.

Yes, you have to build it yourself (or wait). For what it's worth,
that 486 vlb I mentioned earlier _does_ boot with GENERIC/1.5.2.

Frederick