AW: [cobalt-users] Upgrading Raq3i

["Frank Loewe" <loewe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe OT: I saw the Kernel decompress Process in Frimware 2.9.33 is
searching for Bzimage first, then for Gzip. So the Boot-Loader of the
RaQ 
Should be able to handle a "normal" Bzimage Kernel. 

Regards Frank

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[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Jeff Lasman
Gesendet: Samstag, 27. April 2002 19:22
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Betreff: Re: [cobalt-users] Upgrading Raq3i

Gerald Waugh wrote:

> I think it basically works, but you have to be careful of the pentium
issue...
> There is a different version of the compiler for AMD, IIRC

RedHat and FreeBSD both install fine on either Pentium or AMD.  So do
SUSE, Slackware, Mandrake, and turbolinux.  I haven't tried the others
<smile>.  What you have to watch out for is that Mandrake won't install
on 386 or 486 processors.

I'm thinking of two problems... the ROM bios in the RaQ is not the PC
bios, so I have to wonder if the boot routines will even properly
redirect to the serial output.  And... I have to wonder what you'd use
as a boot-loader; I don't know if lilo would work.  Grub most likely
won't; it's too "graphical".

These questions would better be answered on the cobalt-developers list,
where the Cobalt developers still hang out, at least occasionally.

Jeff
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