From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 17:08:39 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: RE: Out of memory panic on boot... Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Ross Ridge (ross@sitraka.com) said: > Ken Hill writes: > > sounds like you copied the kernel to /boot/efi using the copy > > command instead of using cat. > > Just out of curiousity does anyone know why using "cp" rather than > "cat" would be a problem? I can't find anything in the archives for > this mailing list explaining the problem. My only guess is some sort > of bug involving sparse files. There was a problem with this in earlier kernels. I think it's been fixed for a few months now. Bill