From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964886AbWJDFhx (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 01:37:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964887AbWJDFhx (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 01:37:53 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:52098 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964886AbWJDFhw (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 01:37:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:37:20 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com Cc: linux kernel mailing list , Reloc Kernel List , ebiederm@xmission.com, 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: <20061003223720.94c54581.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20061004042850.GA27149@in.ibm.com> References: <20061003170032.GA30036@in.ibm.com> <20061003172511.GL3164@in.ibm.com> <20061003201340.afa7bfce.akpm@osdl.org> <20061004042850.GA27149@in.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 4 Oct 2006 00:28:50 -0400 Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Seems that the entire kernel effort is an ongoing plot to make my poor > > little Vaio stop working. This patch turns it into a black-screened rock > > as soon as it does grub -> linux. Stock-standard FC5 install, config at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt. > > Hi Andrew, > > Right now I don't have access to my test machine. Tomorrow morning, > very first thing I am going to try it out with your config file. > > This patch just adds and ELF header to bzImage which is not even used > by grub. > > So without this patch you are able to boot the kernel on your laptop? With your other 11 patches applied and not this one, it boots OK. With this patch applied and not the other eleven applied: no-compile. With all 12 applied: crash.