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Message-ID: <20090121234347.GI5237@const.famille.thibault.fr> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:43:47 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: kmh@...dshack.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lermen@...erv.ffm.fgan.de, lermen@...n.de, davej@...hat.com, cebbert@...hat.com Subject: Re: PROBLEM: loadlin incompatible with 2.6.23 kernels 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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