Nikolai Vladychevski wrote:
>
> this is the serial console output:
>
> 0
> Hello world!!
> Ram Initialize?
> Ram Initialize?
> Reached intel_main().
> Finding PCI confiuration type...
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> Scanning PCI bus...done
> totalram: 120M
> Enabling cache...done.
> Allocating PCI resources...done.
> Zeroing IRQ settings...done.
> Checking IRQ routing tables...done
> Copying IRQ routing tables...done
> Enabling interrupts...done.
> Final mainboard fixup for PCCHIPS M810LMR (and similar)...done.
> Jumping to linuxbiosmain()...
>
> Welcome to start32, the open sourced starter.
> This space will eventually hold more diagnostic information.
>
> January 2000, James Hendricks, Dale Webster, and Ron Minnich.
> Version 0.1
>
> posting code
> after posting code
> gzip set up ok
> pass 1
>
> the last lines was my debug messages, I modified linuxbiosmain.c and
> inflate.c to see what happend. It dies after "pass 1", in the gunzip()
> function in the inflate.c :
>
> magic[0] = (unsigned char)get_byte();
> magic[1] = (unsigned char)get_byte();
> method = (unsigned char)get_byte();
/> error("pass 1\n");
>
> if (magic[0] != 037 ||
> ((magic[1] != 0213) && (magic[1] != 0236))) {
> error("bad gzip magic numbers");
> return -1;
> }
> error("pass 2\n
>
> why would it hang if between "pass 1" and "pass 2" there is no loop ????
> maybe I broke my hardware doing this stuff? Can my motherboard damage DoCs
> ??? because I suspect something is going wrong..... sometimes it works,
> sometimes it does not......
>
You have done every thing correct. Something the decompress routing
breaks on certain compression level/file contents. Please try to use
different compression level in the Makefile.
Ollie
