From: Christian Lavoie <clavoie@bmed.mcgill.ca>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.17-pre5 will not boot
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:19:37 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011207051939Z282747-752+9102@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112070040380.4486-100000@Appserv.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112070040380.4486-100000@Appserv.suse.de>
On Thursday 06 December 2001 18:46, Dave Jones wrote:
> Can you rebuild from a clean tarball, patch straight up to pre5
> and try and reproduce this ? I'm betting it won't happen and you had
> some cruft from an old build making things go awry.
Close, but no cookie.
Indeed, the problem is not the new arch/i386/kernel code.
The kernel was more or less1024kb large (can't remember the exact number),
and my loadlin can't seem to handle that.
Might be nice to change the current error message from "Kernel isn't usable
on boot floppies" [or words to that effect] to "Kernel isn't usable with
loadlin, as usually seen on boot floppies"...
As to why backing a patch that doesn't get compiled in would change kernel
size... I'm not sure I want to know.
[The fix was to modularize a couple more things]
--
Christian Lavoie
clavoie@bmed.mcgill.ca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-07 5:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-06 22:23 Christian Lavoie
2001-12-06 23:46 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-07 5:19 ` Christian Lavoie [this message]
2001-12-07 5:51 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-12-07 6:00 Randy Dunlap
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