On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:06:27 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> > Seems that the entire kernel effort is an ongoing plot to make my poor > > little Vaio stop working. This patch turns it into a black-screened rock > > as soon as it does grub -> linux. Stock-standard FC5 install, config at > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt. > > 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 tested it with Vivek's fix (below) and it still dies immediately. The grub record is title new (2.6.19-rc1) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/bzImage-2.6.19-rc1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb vga=0x263 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.19-rc1.img various binares are at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/reloc/ arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S | 42 +----------------------------------- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S~i386-boot-add-an-elf-header-to-bzimage-fix arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S --- a/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S~i386-boot-add-an-elf-header-to-bzimage-fix +++ a/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ #include <linux/utsrelease.h> #include <linux/compile.h> #include <linux/elf.h> -#include <linux/elf_boot.h> #include <asm/page.h> #include <asm/boot.h> @@ -73,8 +72,8 @@ ehdr: .int 0 # e_shoff .int 0 # e_flags .word e_ehdr - ehdr # e_ehsize - .word e_phdr1 - phdr # e_phentsize - .word (e_phdr - phdr)/(e_phdr1 - phdr) # e_phnum + .word e_phdr - phdr # e_phentsize + .word 1 # e_phnum .word 40 # e_shentsize .word 0 # e_shnum .word 0 # e_shstrndx @@ -95,45 +94,8 @@ phdr: .int 0 # p_memsz .int PF_R | PF_W | PF_X # p_flags .int CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN # p_align -e_phdr1: - - .int PT_NOTE # p_type - .int b_note - _start # p_offset - .int 0 # p_vaddr - .int 0 # p_paddr - .int e_note - b_note # p_filesz - .int 0 # p_memsz - .int 0 # p_flags - .int 0 # p_align e_phdr: -.macro note name, type - .balign 4 - .int 2f - 1f # n_namesz - .int 4f - 3f # n_descsz - .int \type # n_type - .balign 4 -1: .asciz "\name" -2: .balign 4 -3: -.endm -.macro enote -4: .balign 4 -.endm - - .balign 4 -b_note: - note ELF_NOTE_BOOT, EIN_PROGRAM_NAME - .asciz "Linux" - enote - note ELF_NOTE_BOOT, EIN_PROGRAM_VERSION - .asciz UTS_RELEASE - enote - note ELF_NOTE_BOOT, EIN_ARGUMENT_STYLE - .asciz "Linux" - enote -e_note: - start2: movw %cs, %ax movw %ax, %ds _ _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
