On 12/7/23 7:37 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2023-12-06, Daniel Ouellet <daniel@presscom.net> wrote:
>>>> Any suggestion woudl be greattly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Old boot loaders cannot boot 7.4 kernels.
>>> Upgrade your 6.7 system to 7.3 first (the usual advice to avoid
>>> skipping releases during upgrades applies). Then upgrade to 7.4.
>
> Specifically the interface used for communicating system
> console information between the boot loader and the kernel was changed.
> There was backwards compat but sadly it was removed after one single
> release.
>
> I think this brings the total number of people I know who have been
> affected by this up to 6 now.
>
>> I didn't care what's on it now. All fresh install will do.
>> I have 22 to do. :(
>
> You can copy a new bootloader to the old machines and run installboot.
Hi Stuart,
Just to be clear and to help others here.
You are talking about these two files only right?
/usr/mdec/boot
/usr/sbin/installboot
or should this one below be included too? I don't think it's needed, but
just want to be sure and make the info complete.
/usr/mdec/biosboot
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