From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 12:42:11 +0000 Subject: Re: Decompression error with silo and new kernel Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > After having installed the latest ultrapenguin release I wanted to > compile a new kernel. I couldn't find any (ultra)sparclinux specific > docs about this, so I used my Intel/PMac knowledge about Linux. I did > the following > > - make kernel as usual > - copy and gzip the resulting vmlinux file (tiens, it is not located somewhere > deep down in the arch hierarchy this time) to /boot > - edit /etc/silo.conf to add a new target > - reboot > > I get the error "Decompression error: uncompressed image too large - > wouldn't fit into destination" You have compiled everything in, haven't you? Current SILO is not able to load images larger than 2.5M-16384. So, for now, modularize your kernel a bit. I will in the mean time try to think how to make SILO able to handle larger sizes (but there will probably be a limitation 3M-100K even then). The problem is SILO is statically linked to 0x280000 address, which is caused by old Suns where they guarantee only 3M of contiguous mapped memory. Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.102 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________