Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: 2.2.0-final | Date | 25 Jan 1999 17:08:26 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990124192121.13755B-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk> By author: Riley Williams <rhw@BigFoot.Com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > It is the "Tecra bug". You need to use zImage, the broken BIOS in > > some toshiba laptops just can't deal with the bzImage. I don't know > > why it works with 2.0.x though. However, the bug is in your > > hardware. > > Ah...that certainly makes sense... > > Just to satisfy my curiosity, any idea exactly how the said bug hits? > There's obviously some part of the bzImage algorithm that's rather > susceptible, that's not in the zImage algorithm, but as I don't have > much idea how either algorithm works... >
The "Tecra bug" was presumed solved in early 2.1.x. We do also know there are some systems which uses incredibly broken A20-gating mechanisms out there.
We need as much info on your system as is possible (CPU, memory, etc.)
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