Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750746AbWJEEMz (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 00:12:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750749AbWJEEMz (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 00:12:55 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:28896 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750746AbWJEEMy (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 00:12:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4524862A.7080306@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:12:26 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Andrew Morton , vgoyal@in.ibm.com, linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ak@suse.de, horms@verge.net.au, lace@jankratochvil.net, magnus.damm@gmail.com, lwang@redhat.com, dzickus@redhat.com, maneesh@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage References: <20061003170032.GA30036@in.ibm.com> <20061003172511.GL3164@in.ibm.com> <20061003201340.afa7bfce.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1160 Lines: 29 Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Ugh. I just tested this with a grub 0.97-5 from what I assume is a > standard FC5 install (I haven't touched it) and the kernel boots. > I only have a 64bit user space on that machine so init doesn't > start but I get the rest of the kernel messages. > > There were several testers working at redhat so a pure redhat > incompatibility would be a surprise. > > I don't think the formula is a simple grub+bzImage == death. > > There is something more subtle going on here. > > I'm not certain where to start looking. Andrew it might help if we > could get the dying binary just in case some weird compile or > processing problem caused insanely unlikely things like the multiboot > binary to show up in your grub install. I don't think that is it, > but it should allow us to rule out that possibility. > I would try running it in a more memory-constrained environment. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/