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DateWed, 04 Oct 2006 21:12:26 -0700
From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Ugh.  I just tested this with a grub 0.97-5 from what I assume is a
> standard FC5 install (I haven't touched it) and the kernel boots.
> I only have a 64bit user space on that machine so init doesn't
> start but I get the rest of the kernel messages.> > There were several testers working at redhat so a pure redhat
> incompatibility would be a surprise.> > I don't think the formula is a simple grub+bzImage == death.
> > There is something more subtle going on here.  > > I'm not certain where to start looking.  Andrew it might help if we
> could get the dying binary just in case some weird compile or
> processing problem caused insanely unlikely things like the multiboot
> binary to show up in your grub install.  I don't think that is it,
> but it should allow us to rule out that possibility.
> 

I would try running it in a more memory-constrained environment.

	-hpa
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