Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751167AbWJEGtx (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 02:49:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751515AbWJEGtx (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 02:49:53 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:17339 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751167AbWJEGtw (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 02:49:52 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Andrew Morton Cc: vgoyal@in.ibm.com, linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ak@suse.de, horms@verge.net.au, lace@jankratochvil.net, hpa@zytor.com, 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> <20061004214403.e7d9f23b.akpm@osdl.org> <20061004233137.97451b73.akpm@osdl.org> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:48:10 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20061004233137.97451b73.akpm@osdl.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Wed, 4 Oct 2006 23:31:37 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 25 Andrew Morton writes: > On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0600 > ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> Do things work better if you don't specify a vga=xxx mode? > > yes, without vga=0x263 it boots. Ok. It will take some digging but I suspect the problem is that video.S is using a table or a variable placed over the original boot sector, and expecting it to be zero initialized. Finding that in the pile of 2000 lines of assembly could take a little while. Now at least we have something other people can try and reproduce this problem with. Eric - 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/