Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Oct 2002 23:00:43 +0100 | From | robert w hall <> | Subject | Re: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels |
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which version of loadlin does this patch? Hans Lermen changed the gdt structure in version 1.6b to enable it to boot a win4lin-enabled kernel - he also changed things recently (1.6c) to boot kernels of between 0.5 &1.5Mb compressed.
(IF I sat down for half an hour I could comment better.. but you probably know the answer straight-off anyway :-)) Bob Hall
In article <m1bs5in1zh.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> writes >"Mike Galbraith" <EFAULT@gmx.de> writes: > >> (sorry, I have to use this pos at work) >> >> Yes. .31 exploded on me after boot, but did not do the violent reboot >> during boot. > >Earlier you had said it was .38 or so where the failures kicked in, >so I figured it was some other problem. > >> > If it is really the gdt I have some old patches that roughly do the >> > right thing, and I just need to dust them off. >> >> You dust them off, and I'll be more than happy to test them. I keep >> entirely too many kernels resident to want to use lilo. > >Here you are. >The following patch cleans up and removes unnecessary dependencies from >the x86 boot path. > >> (kexec/bootimg wonderfulness solves my problem too. boot into a stable >> kernel, instant reboot into any one I want. gimme gimme gimme:) > >It is getting there... >I just need to find a formula that makes the linux kernel boot reliably. > > >[ A MIME text / plain part was included here. ] > > >Eric
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