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Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:15:41 -0400
From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Matt Sealey" <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.26 does not boot on Pegasos
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On 7/15/08, Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com> wrote:
> If you built this kernel yourself, you need to do it from a system with
>  an up-to-date binutils (2.18) otherwise, it does this.
>
>  If you got it from somewhere (like a distribution) then please tell us
>  where, as there are some other troubles with load-base location for
>  Fedora and so on...

Is it hard to put a check into the kernel make system to look for
binutils 2.17 and refuse to build with a nice error message? I poked
around in the makefile but I'm not 100% sure of how it works.

>
>  --
>  Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
>  Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations
>
>
>  Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>
> >        Hi,
> >
> > I just tried to boot 2.6.26 on a Pegasos and the kernel does not boot.
> > The last message I have is:
> > gunzip (0xffffffff <----- some more hex digits)
> >
> > The configuration has been created from a working 2.6.25 one with
> > make oldconfig and answering N to new config options.
> >
> > Anybody has seen this or do I have to start digging deeper?
> >
> >        Regards,
> >        Gabriel
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