In article <l9jrfuINN3vg@ozona.cs.utexas.edu> jefftep@cs.utexas.edu (Jeffrey Grills) writes:
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>Linus, (or any other kind soul):
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>Can you make the bootimage for 0.97pl2 that you said you would?
>I looked on nic and tsx, and didn't see it.  Please let us know
>when one is available...

It's on nic.funet.fi:

        pub/OS/Linux/testing/Linus/bootimage-0.97.2.Z

I just put it there, so it's no wonder you haven't been able to find it.
Unless I did something stupid when making the image (never tried it
myself), it should have the same setup as the sources I put out: US
keyboard, everything but kernel profiling compiled in, and set up to use
a floppy as the root fs.

And as to the mount binary: it wasn't pl2 that broke it - it just
happened to work under older versions even though it did things it
shouldn't have.  But pl2 /may/ break X11 if you are running it on
chipsets that the driver needs BIOS access for - I haven't looked into
it, but it may be that X11 counts on being able to read /dev/mem to read
the BIOS, which no longer works.

                Linus