Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932323AbWJEVy7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:54:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932309AbWJEVy6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:54:58 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:37323 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932303AbWJEVy5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:54:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:54:21 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Andrew Morton , 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 Message-ID: <20061005215421.GH20551@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1056 Lines: 30 On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:48:10AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > 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. > I have tried it on three machines with various combinations of vga= but no luck. Can't reproduce the problem at all. :-( Vivek - 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/