[parisc-linux] Success story on 715/33 and a question

[Ulrich Strelow]

--- Ulrich Strelow <ulrich_strelow@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a ramdisk image which I can use on a system
> without a network driver ? ...

OK, this was a really stupid question, I must admit. I
simply forget that it now only takes some minutes (in
this case seconds) to build a new lifimage and test
it.

So here are the results of testing the various ramdisk
images at
ftp://puffin.external.hp.com/pub/parisc/binaries/ramdisks/
on my 715/33:

Version       sash prompt      mount -t proc proc
/proc
-------------------------------------------------------
19991108      yes              does not work
20000118      yes              works with error
message
20000118a     no               -
20000129      no               -
20000217      yes              works

Version 20000118a hangs after the message "No such
device" because of a missing network driver, Version
20000129 ends with a kernel protection fault.

Maybe these results are of some interest to people
with older machines.

Thanks to Philipp for his quick reply about the
forthcoming improvements for 715/old (that's a good
model name !).

Ulrich  

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