linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.33-rc2-git6 -- Boot fails with "Destination address too large." with recent kernels when compressed with bz2 or lzma (gzip works).

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Date:	Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:59:20 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
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).

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
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