rawhide report: 20051228 changes

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 12:26:12AM +0000, Andy Burns wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > >ok, worst case, you can wait for the scripts to autogenerate an image
 > >for tomorrows rahide :-)
 > 
 > I extracted using
 > 
 > rpm2cpio kernel-2.6.14-1.1805_FC5.i686.rpm | cpio -id
 > 
 > then moved the vmlinuz file into tftpboot and PXE booted, got as far as 
 > the blue language selection screen, so the spinlock-taint patch looks 
 > like the culprit, I *didn't* make a new initrd.img so modules didn't 
 > load (bit surprised I couldn't see errors about version mismatch 
 > anywhere) but using PS/2 keyboard instead of USB I could switch VTs and 
 > get as far as selecting a http install before it realised it hadn't got 
 > a NIC.
 > 
 > All bodes well for tomorrow's rawhide ;-)

Yeah, that bit of diff was an experiment that landed in the wrong .patch
file when I rediffed. The wonders of using too many temporary files
called 'current.diff' are to blame for that mishap.

Thanks for testing :)

		Dave