Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

Ed Tomlinson
2006-12-02T03:07:00Z

On Friday 01 December 2006 19:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 19:33:21 -0500
> Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca> wrote:
>
> > I booted without the video and vga settings with earlyprintk=vga and got output. The
> > kenerl was complaining about a crc error. Checking the patch list I found:
> >
> > crc32-replace-bitreverse-by-bitrev32.patch
> >
> > reversing this patch fixes booting here.
>
> Odd that you're the only person seeing this - could be a miscompile?

I recompiled four times. The only change the last time was to reverse the above patch. I am using
gcc is 4.1.1 (gentoo 4.1.1-r1).

> What was the error message, exactly?

I am not sure of the exact text. Basicly the loader loaded the kernel, a crc error was reported, then the kernel halted.
I am using grub, gcc 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r1).