Package: silo Version: 1.4.13a+git20070930-3 Severity: normal Tilo fails (Segmentation fault) to build a tftp bootloader is the image exceeds a certain size. The following session give some evidence of the problem.
jer...@sunny:/tmp/u$ gzip -cd /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-sparc64 > vmlinuz && tilo vmlinuz /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-sparc64 Converting vmlinuz (sun4u) to a.out: PT 0 Entry: Loadable to 0x400000[0x3f7020] from 0x0[0x3ac085] align 0x100000 PT 1 Entry: Note PT 2 Entry: unknown Compressing vmlinuz.raw: vmlinuz.raw: 55.0% Sizes (sun4u): raw size = 3833989 packed size = 1725744 root address = 00000000007f7020 Root image packed size = 6475114 WARNING: Kernel for Sun4c/m/d not specified Images are large. Will load on machines with at least 5M mapped by PROM only /usr/bin/tilo: line 115: 21234 Segmentation fault `echo $0 | sed 's/tilo$/maketilo/'` $tilo_args out=$output jer...@sunny:/tmp/u$ ls -l vmlinuz /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-sparc64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6475114 May 20 11:21 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-sparc64 -rw-r--r-- 1 jeremy jeremy 3853600 May 27 07:51 vmlinuz jer...@sunny:/tmp/u$ echo -n | cpio -o | gzip -9c > empty-initrd.img && tilo vmlinuz empty-initrd.img 1 block Converting vmlinuz (sun4u) to a.out: PT 0 Entry: Loadable to 0x400000[0x3f7020] from 0x0[0x3ac085] align 0x100000 PT 1 Entry: Note PT 2 Entry: unknown Compressing vmlinuz.raw: vmlinuz.raw: 55.0% Sizes (sun4u): raw size = 3833989 packed size = 1725744 root address = 00000000007f7020 Root image packed size = 44 WARNING: Kernel for Sun4c/m/d not specified Images are large. Will load on machines with at least 5M mapped by PROM only TILO size = 1743200 -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: sparc (sparc64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-sparc64 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages silo depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries silo recommends no packages. silo suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

