Re: [PATCH 12/12] i386 boot: Add an ELF header to bzImage

Andrew Morton
2006-10-11T02:36:25Z

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:40:25 -0400
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 08:14:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:33:45 -0400
> > Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Please find attached the regenerated patch.
> >
> > Somewhere amongst the six versions of this patch, the kernel broke. Seems
> > that the kernel command line isn't getting recognised. The machine is
> > running LILO and RH FC1.
> >
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> I tried lilo 22.7.3 with FC6 Test2 with 2.6.19-rc1 and all the relocatable
> patches and things work fine for me. Commnand line is also being recognized
> properly.

This is FC1.

> Looks like something specific to your setup. Can you please provide some
> more details
>
> - Do you see any failure messages?

Tricky. No command line means no serial console, no netconsole.

> - Can you please provide your /etc/lilo.conf file.

Various stuff at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/vmm/

> - What lilo version are you using?

vmm:/boot> lilo -v
LILO version 21.4-4, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
'lba32' extensions Copyright (C) 1999,2000 John Coffman

> - Can you please also upload your kernel config file.

See above.