From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from atlrel6.hp.com (atlrel6.hp.com [156.153.255.205]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F744829 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:57:57 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 09:57:54 -0700 To: "Aaron St. Pierre" Cc: Michael Wood , Grant Grundler , parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] kernel compile Message-ID: <20030204165754.GA23535@paul.bame> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20030203153735.GE1046@hadron> From: bame@fc.hp.com (Paul Bame) 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 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. -P