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Hi All…

Those who have been trying out the 2008.0 beta stages I put out recently, probably will have ran into problems with tools like rm and touch not working properly.  It turns out, a series of kernel updates between 2.6.16 (what most of the netboot images are based on, except Cobalt which uses 2.6.13), and 2.6.19-rc5 (what my O2 runs), there have been changes to some of the system calls.  So the newer coreutils breaks on the older kernels.

I’m now in the process of updating the kernels used.  As I type this, I’m recompiling the Cobalt netboot image (same userland tools, just a newer kernel … at some point I’ll recompile the userland too), downloading the 2.6.20 kernel for IP28 users, and I’ll look into IP22 (r4k), IP30 and IP32 as well.

Sadly, R5k IP22 and IP27 will get ignored here — because I don’t have any suitable hardware to test them on.  Otherwise I’d update those too.

I’ll let you all know when the newer netboot images are available.

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