linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage

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Date:	Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:54:21 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Reloc Kernel List <fastboot@...ts.osdl.org>, ak@...e.de,
	horms@...ge.net.au, lace@...kratochvil.net, hpa@...or.com,
	magnus.damm@...il.com, lwang@...hat.com, dzickus@...hat.com,
	maneesh@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:48:10AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:13:12 -0600
> > ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> >
> >> Do things work better if you don't specify a vga=xxx mode?
> >
> > yes, without vga=0x263 it boots.
> 
> Ok.  It will take some digging but I suspect the problem is
> that video.S is using a table or a variable placed over the original
> boot sector, and expecting it to be zero initialized. 
> 
> Finding that in the pile of 2000 lines of assembly could take a
> little while.
> 
> Now at least we have something other people can try and reproduce
> this problem with.
>

I have tried it on three machines with various combinations of vga=
but no luck. Can't reproduce the problem at all. :-(

Vivek
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