Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 1999 16:00:41 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.28 bug in ramdisk loading. |
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On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > whether ramdisk is compressed or not, it is irrelevant - in both cases, > it will load ok but as soon as you do do_load_elf_binary() it will fail > the ELF magic test - in fact all data is zeros, which is why if you enable > CONFIG_KMOD it will request_module(binfmt-0000) which will try to exec > /sbin/modprobe which will request_module(binfmt-0000) etc etc.
to clarify further - it is as if gunzip() gunzip'd everything successfully but the data it produced is all zeros.
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