On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:24, Joshua Gitlin wrote: > On a hunch, I cd'ed to /usr/src/linux and tried to execute > './vmlinux'... just to see what would happen. > > It segfaulted! Is this normal???
Err, I'd guess this is completely normal. The kernel is a very special binary and is only intended to be run by a bootloader. It probably can't handle the "user-mode" environment provided by the running kernel. In fact, the running kernel MUST prevent your new kernel from executing, because it will immediately try to do things that violate the protection put in place by the running kernel. You will need a virtual machine like VMware, or a user-mode-Linux setup, in order to expect this kind of test to work. Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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