Re: Install report: Woody on a SGI Indy R5000

[Guido Guenther]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:00:11PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Much simpler. Its getting installed into the volume header. Its able
> to boot an ELF kernel from a common ext2/ext3 partition. Guido worked
> on it very hard 2 weeks ago and there is a debian package now. We
> are looking forward to change the kernel-images and kernel-package to
> provide elf images and use arcboot for booting which will also bring
> down the needed volume header size.
The ELF images have already entered testing(2.4.17-0.020130.1) - thanks
to Manoj who applied the patches to kernel-package incredibly fast.
Arcboot is in unstable and will move to testing within a week(in case no
RC bugs show up).
 -- Guido