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[Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>]

Hey there Benoit,

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 11:48:45AM +0100, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> grub is not working on this ISO. It will be fixed on the next ISO (if 
> not already done...).

Further to this, why not have lilo working as well?  I've posted the 
patch for bin86 to bugzilla:

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8191

I did test the patched bin86 spell and lilo and it all worked just fine 
(though I never tried booting from the installed images... I'm just 
guessing at this point that there wouldn't be any reason why it wouldn't 
work...)

You also wanted reports about this stuff, so here's my notes (finally):

The language menu in the installer is ugly, not like the other style 
which is more similar to glibc's language choosing menu.

What the heck are the "spell is being investigated" messages during 
install?  I found them confusing and unnecessary.

Of course, you already know this one - no bootloader getting installed.

Sorcery tries using /usr/lib/installwatch.so, which is broken... ldd 
shows /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary file

There were problems with networking until I built my own kernel (not 
sure why, even with the appropriate kernel module loaded, but it wasn't 
working... the driver is the 8139too)

I believe sorcery's archspecs for x86_64 are incorrect... HOST should 
probably be x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, and march=k8 for amd64 (though march=k8 
isn't supported in gcc 3.3.3, so as soon as we're using gcc 3.4 across 
the board, we should fix the CFLAGS), not sure if x86_64-pc-linux-gnu is 
a gcc 3.4 only supported thing or not... 

Anyhow, aside from that, the install was just fine... We've obviously 
got a ways to go on the x86_64 front, though.  There's still plenty of 
spells that don't work quite right without x86_64 specific fixes...

Enjoy!

-Adam

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