On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 23:53, Hamish Guthrie (Mail Lists) wrote: > > For a long time I have been using 2.4.2 thru 2.4.5 kernels, but because of > some new work I am doing, have decided to try some of the newer kernels > (2.4.17/2.4.18). > > I hit this problem with a 2.4.18 kernel, then noticed Ollie had been using > 2.4.17 so tried that too with the same disastrous results. I have now just > gone back to a 2.4.5 kernel and everything is magically fine. > > I have not done enough debugging in the 2.4.17 environment, but it appears > to me that it is trying to interpret the e820 tables, even though (just > looking into LinuxBIOS code), LinuxBIOS sets up an empty e820 table. I need > to still have a thorough look at the Etherboot and elfboot code to see what > they does with e820 memory tables, if anything. >
I just tried mkelfImage-1.14 (freebios CVS) with RedHat-7.2 and kernel 2.4.18. There is no problem for me. Ollie
