Re: [BUG] 2.4.0-test5-pre2 doesn't boot

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:44:27 -0400

I wrote:
> Hi, all. Just booted 2.4.0-test5-pre2 (last one was
> 2.4.0-test4-pre2) and it fails right at the beginning. I get an out of
> memory error and then "System halted". Boo hiss.
> Even passing in mem= doesn't help.
>
> Dell Inspiron 3200, UP kernel. I just upgraded to binutils 2.9.1.0.25
> as well.

That was a zImage. Booting a bzImage (something I've never needed to
do before because I had a slimmed down kernel) works fine.
Sigh.

Maybe we should just remove zImage? Or at least put in a better trap
for kernels which are too large (assuming this wasn't just a plain bug
that got introduced recently).

Regards,

Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

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