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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.33-rc2-git6 -- Boot fails with "Destination address too large." with recent kernels when compressed with bz2 or lzma (gzip works).
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:59:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B439A18.3030408@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a44ae5cd1001051155s7204a182wefafbfc2bb2409e4@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/05/2010 11:55 AM, Miles Lane wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I can get a gzipped kernel to boot (I am running Ubuntu in a WUBI
> FUSE-mounted EXT3 file system that is stored in a 16GB file on my
> Windows NTFS partition).  But, when I try to compress the kernel with
> lzma or bz2, the boot fails with "Destination address too large."
> 

Known bug (it happens when your sh isn't bash on the compile host, and
possibly some other tools).  It's being addressed.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05 19:55 2.6.33-rc2-git6 -- Boot fails with "Destination address too large." with recent kernels when compressed with bz2 or lzma (gzip works) Miles Lane
2010-01-05 19:59 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-01-05 20:16   ` Miles Lane

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