Re2: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels

Re2: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels

[Mike Galbraith]

At 02:06 PM 10/20/2002 -0400, Floydsmith@aol.com wrote:
>Subj: Re: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels
>Date: 10/20/2002 1:43:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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> >>Subj:loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels
> >>Date:10/20/2002 9:03:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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> >>Greetings,
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> >>I hadn't had time to build/test kernels since 2.5.8-pre3.  I now find that
> >>loadlin doesn't work on my box any more.  Is this a known problem?  If so,
> >>when did it quit working?  (loadlin obsolete?  other?)
> >>
> >>At the moment, the only way I have to boot is via floppy.
> >
> >
> >loadlin will not work with any kernel that is 1024k or greater in size.
> >There is a replacement named "linld" at:
> >http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/index.html
> >which help you.
>
>Yeah, that's always been a pain, but that's not what I'm hitting (violent
>reboot).  I'll give linld (thanks!) a shot, but mostly, I want my dearly
>beloved loadlin back ;-)
>
>Reply:
>Yes I have seen that one to (but only with certain large kernels and when 
>certain large initrd images are used).
>The only solution I have found (so far) is to reduce the size of the 
>initrd - again, a pain.
>If linld works for you, please reply; this would be usefull info.

What was the last version that booted for you no problem?  (other than size)

         -Mike

Re: Re2: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels

[Rene Blokland]

In article <5.1.0.14.2.20021020202108.00b890f8@pop.gmx.net>, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> What was the last version that booted for you no problem?  (other than size)
> 
>          -Mike

In my case x.38 that is the last, I don't no anymore why not .39 (did it
compile?)
But sure .40 didn't boot with loadlin and an image dd'd to a floppy

-- 
Groeten / Regards, Rene J. Blokland

Re: Re2: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels

[Eric W. Biederman]

Rene Blokland <reneb@orac.aais.org> writes:

> In article <5.1.0.14.2.20021020202108.00b890f8@pop.gmx.net>, Mike Galbraith
> wrote:
> 
> 
> > What was the last version that booted for you no problem?  (other than size)
> > 
> >          -Mike
> 
> In my case x.38 that is the last, I don't no anymore why not .39 (did it
> compile?)
> But sure .40 didn't boot with loadlin and an image dd'd to a floppy

Hmm.  Are you certain the last working version wasn't at .30 that just before
Ingos gdt changes.  And changing the gdt is quite likely to have broken loadlin,
as it uses the segments in the gdt from setup.S

I will see if I can build a test patch for this.  Except for the recent EDD
work and the GDT change there really haven't been changes to setup.S so this
failure report is very strange.

Eric