From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932128Ab0AEUQa (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:16:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755774Ab0AEUQT (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:16:19 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f219.google.com ([209.85.219.219]:54314 "EHLO mail-ew0-f219.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755772Ab0AEUQQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:16:16 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VO6SNZdAlDJVyev0g/o0qm3jcnCaZ5bNtTuijmO6o6Yau13FUbNXQjRJoMx39dr1XR EL2VIMSywDDReJnXQQxs/TWl25j6IWZK4c403zEuLVJUt7aE8TCsfDvxm/NvSvTzC1eF Kzd56vYSpd8ibRG+3ppVRX714DJZrnsK18Fj0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4B439A18.3030408@zytor.com> References: <4B439A18.3030408@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:16:15 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc2-git6 -- Boot fails with "Destination address too large." with recent kernels when compressed with bz2 or lzma (gzip works). From: Miles Lane To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:59 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/05/2010 11:55 AM, Miles Lane wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I can get a gzipped kernel to boot (I am running Ubuntu in a WUBI >> FUSE-mounted EXT3 file system that is stored in a 16GB file on my >> Windows NTFS partition).  But, when I try to compress the kernel with >> lzma or bz2, the boot fails with "Destination address too large." >> > > Known bug (it happens when your sh isn't bash on the compile host, and > possibly some other tools).  It's being addressed. > >        -hpa > Yes, Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) is using dash (/bin/sh -> dash) dash 0.5.5.1-2ubuntu3 POSIX-compliant shell "The Debian Almquist Shell (dash) is a lightweight POSIX-compliant shell derived from ash." BTW, why is it that only changing the compression algorithm forces a complete rebuild? It seems like only the existing kernel should need recompression. GNU bash, version 4.1.0(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu) Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-9-generic #13-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 17 17:02:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Gnu C 4.4.3 Gnu make 3.81 binutils 2.20 util-linux 2.16 mount support module-init-tools 3.11.1 e2fsprogs 1.41.9 reiserfsprogs 3.6.21 pcmciautils 014 PPP 2.4.5 Linux C Library 2.10.2 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.10.2 Procps 3.2.8 Net-tools 1.60 Kbd 1.15 Sh-utils 7.4 wireless-tools 29 Modules Loaded aes_i586 aes_generic binfmt_misc ppdev snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor vga16fb vgastate snd_pcm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi arc4 snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device i915 ath9k drm_kms_helper mac80211 ath snd drm i2c_algo_bit cfg80211 intel_agp joydev psmouse serio_raw soundcore led_class agpgart snd_page_alloc video output lp parport atl1e hid_logitech ff_memless usbhid