From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754777AbZAUXoF (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:44:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754154AbZAUXnw (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:43:52 -0500 Received: from solo.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.19]:56744 "EHLO solo.fdn.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754112AbZAUXnv (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:43:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:43:47 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: kmh@nerdshack.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de, lermen@fgan.de, davej@redhat.com, cebbert@redhat.com Subject: Re: PROBLEM: loadlin incompatible with 2.6.23 kernels Message-ID: <20090121234347.GI5237@const.famille.thibault.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , "H. Peter Anvin" , kmh@nerdshack.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de, lermen@fgan.de, davej@redhat.com, cebbert@redhat.com References: <200712022336.SAA12095@granite.sover.net> <4977AB27.8080608@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4977AB27.8080608@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 21 Jan 2009 15:09:27 -0800, a écrit : > Kenneth Howlett wrote: > >I do not know if the problem is with the kernel or with loadlin. Probably > >some people will say it is the kernel's fault, and other people will say it > >is loadlin's fault. > > > >I do not know why this occurs with loadlin and not with other boot loaders. > > LOADLIN uses memory it isn't allowed to use by the boot protocol. Newer > kernels use more memory than previous ones, and starts using memory > LOADLIN expects to use. > > Unfortunately LOADLIN hasn't been updated for a very long time, and > there doesn't seem to be much interest in maintaining it. I've fixed loadlin in debian and actually plan to maintain it upstream. I had to patch it quite a bit to make it compilable by yasm, but it can now boot recent big kernels & initrds. Samuel