From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:03:26 -0700 To: Paul Bame Cc: "Aaron St. Pierre" , Michael Wood , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] kernel compile Message-ID: <20030204180326.GB15904@dsl2.external.hp.com> References: <20030203020247.GB1046@hadron> <20030203041122.GB29454@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20030203053336.GC1046@hadron> <20030203060359.GF29454@dsl2.external.hp.com> <20030203064328.GD1046@hadron> <20030203101959.GA28668@marmite.its.uct.ac.za> <20030203153735.GE1046@hadron> <20030204165754.GA23535@paul.bame> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20030204165754.GA23535@paul.bame> From: grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com (Grant Grundler) Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:57:54AM -0700, Paul Bame wrote: > On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:37:35AM -0500, Aaron St. Pierre wrote: > > Yes, the boot partition is < 2GB. In fact here is the partion table as > > reported from fdisk. > > > > Disk /dev/sda: 9100 MB, 9100044288 bytes > > 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 8678 cylinders > > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes > > > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > > /dev/sda1 * 1 29 29680 f0 Linux/PA-RISC boot > > /dev/sda2 30 267 243712 83 Linux > > Your TOC dump indicated a likely death in firmware, which is consistent > with trying to load a kernel from beyond the 2G mark. Indeed your > /dev/sda2 ends past the 2G mark, so you can expect that sometimes > it'll work and sometimes it won't. Paul, Are you sure? 267*1048576 == 279969792 == 279,969,792 That's 280MB if I've placed the comas right. grant