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

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Message-ID: <4524862A.7080306@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:12:26 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, vgoyal@...ibm.com,
	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, 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

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Ugh.  I just tested this with a grub 0.97-5 from what I assume is a
> standard FC5 install (I haven't touched it) and the kernel boots.
> I only have a 64bit user space on that machine so init doesn't
> start but I get the rest of the kernel messages.
> 
> There were several testers working at redhat so a pure redhat
> incompatibility would be a surprise.
> 
> I don't think the formula is a simple grub+bzImage == death.
> 
> There is something more subtle going on here.  
> 
> I'm not certain where to start looking.  Andrew it might help if we
> could get the dying binary just in case some weird compile or
> processing problem caused insanely unlikely things like the multiboot
> binary to show up in your grub install.  I don't think that is it,
> but it should allow us to rule out that possibility.
> 

I would try running it in a more memory-constrained environment.

	-hpa
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