Next release of AlphaCore? JUST DO IT

[Alan Young]

Sergey Tikhonov wrote:
> Simon Tierney wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> I have DEC 7305 with SMP and RedHat7.2 on it and I have been waiting 
>> for an
>> Alphacore distribution with SMP working reliably.  I can test a new
>> installation ISO.   When Alphacore2 is ready please post a link.
>>  
>>
> Well, you should check AC1 then. Like I said in my e-mail - AC2 doesn't 
> have working SMP kernel. :(
> As far I know - SMP kernel crashes on early boot stages, so remote 
> debugging might be impossible
> (I am not an expert here). The kernel version in AC2 is 
> 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4axp. If someone is
> running SMP kernel version higher than 2.6.11 please post here (the 
> vanilla kernel seems to be broken
> too).
> 
> You could download small iso image and check if it could be bootable on 
> your machine:
> ftp://ftp.rdsor.ro/pub/Linux/Distributions/AlphaLinux/core/2.0/test/ac2-qboot2.iso 
> 
> This is boot iso without install packages, but goot enough to boot into 
> "resque" mode.
> 
> Thank you,
> Sergey.
> tsv at solvo.ru

I generally have had better luck with the generic kernels vs. the RH
ones.  I have a SMP DP264 that was running on generic 2.6.12.2 and
I just moved it up to 2.6.15.4.  I'll download the test iso and give
it a boot to see what happens.

Alan