Hi Michael, On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:13 PM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 29/06/21 7:17 am, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >>> The warning is printed when using filesys-ELF-2.0.x-1400K-2.gz, > >>> which is a very old ramdisk from right after the m68k a.out to ELF > >>> transition: > >>> > >>> warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call > >>> Fix your initscripts? > >>> > >>> I still boot it, once in a while. > >> OK; you take the cake. That ramdisk came to mind when I thought about > >> where I'd last seen bdflush, but I've not used it in ages (not sure 14 > >> MB are enough for that). > > Of course it will work on your 14 MiB machine! It fits on a floppy, _after_ > > decompression. It was used by people to install Linux on the hard disks > > of their beefy m68k machines, after they had set up the family Christmas > > tree, in December 1996. > > Been there, done that. Wrote the HOWTO for ext2 filesystem byte-swapping. I knew I could revive your memory ;-) > > I also have a slightly larger one, built from OpenWRT when I did my first > > experiments on that. Unlike filesys-ELF-2.0.x-1400K-2.gz, it does open > > a shell on the serial console, so it is more useful to me. > > > >> The question then is - will bdflush fail gracefully, or spin retrying > >> the syscall? > > Will add to my todo list... > > BTW, you can boot this ramdisk on ARAnyM, too. > > True. I can't find that ramdisk image anywhere - if you can point me to > some archive, I'll give that a try. http://ftp.mac.linux-m68k.org/pub/linux-mac68k/initrd/ Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
