Ok, so I think I got that nailed down insofar as it is related to the series of patches that add nx protection to the kernel read-only data areas (possibly there is some glitch about where start and end of those areas should be). In the end this should be fixed properly but for the meantime I would propose to add a patch that simply disables the option to write-protect the kernel data (which disables both). I did test this approach and got an i386 instance booted with that modified -12 kernel.
Second, we should open a bug to track fixing the nx protection so we have that separated from the does-not-boot case. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/699828 Title: natty 2.6.37-11-virtual doesn't boot on EC2 in 32bits -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
