2.2.20pre series and booting problem

2.2.20pre series and booting problem

[Petri Kaukasoina]

Hi

I just tried to compile kernels from the 2.2.20pre series for the first
time. 2.2.20pre3 boots ok but pre5-pre9 do not:


Uncompressing Linux...

Out of memory

  -- System halted


I'm sorry if I this is well-known: I haven't been following the list very
closely lately. Maybe it has something to do with this:

o       Add support for the 2.4 boot extensions to 2.2  (H Peter Anvin) 

I tried with gcc-2.7.2.3 + binutils-2.9.1.0.25 and with egcs-1.1.2 +
binutils-2.11.90.0.19. On a 486 with 48 M RAM and lilo 21.7-5 and on a
Pentium MMX with 64 M RAM and lilo 19.

Re: 2.2.20pre series and booting problem

[Tim Moore]

make bzimage?

Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I just tried to compile kernels from the 2.2.20pre series for the first
> time. 2.2.20pre3 boots ok but pre5-pre9 do not:
> 
> Uncompressing Linux...
> 
> Out of memory
> 
>   -- System halted
> 
> I'm sorry if I this is well-known: I haven't been following the list very
> closely lately. Maybe it has something to do with this:
> 
> o       Add support for the 2.4 boot extensions to 2.2  (H Peter Anvin)
> 
> I tried with gcc-2.7.2.3 + binutils-2.9.1.0.25 and with egcs-1.1.2 +
> binutils-2.11.90.0.19. On a 486 with 48 M RAM and lilo 21.7-5 and on a
> Pentium MMX with 64 M RAM and lilo 19.
--

Re: 2.2.20pre series and booting problem

[Petri Kaukasoina]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:35:23PM -0700, Tim Moore wrote:
> Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> > 
> > 2.2.20pre3 boots ok but pre5-pre9 do not:
> > 
> > Uncompressing Linux...
> > 
> > Out of memory
> > 
> >   -- System halted
> > 
> > I tried with gcc-2.7.2.3 + binutils-2.9.1.0.25 and with egcs-1.1.2 +
> > binutils-2.11.90.0.19. On a 486 with 48 M RAM and lilo 21.7-5 and on a
> > Pentium MMX with 64 M RAM and lilo 19.

> make bzimage?

Yes, both zImage and bzImage gave the same error. (I should have mentioned
that, sorry.)

Re: 2.2.20pre series and booting problem

[Petri Kaukasoina]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 08:16:29AM +0300, Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:35:23PM -0700, Tim Moore wrote:
> > Petri Kaukasoina wrote:
> > > 
> > > 2.2.20pre3 boots ok but pre5-pre9 do not:
> > > 
> > > Uncompressing Linux...
> > > 
> > > Out of memory
> > > 
> > >   -- System halted
> > > 
> 
> > make bzimage?
> 
> Yes, both zImage and bzImage gave the same error. (I should have mentioned
> that, sorry.)

I was wrong. I must have made a mistake when I tried bzImage because now it
works.

Up to 2.2.20pre3 zImage works ok. After that it doesn't work any longer, but
bzImage does.

For example this is a 2.2.19 zImage

-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       476269 Aug 11 23:32 vmlinuz-2.2.19

which reports its size like this

Memory: 47136k/49152k available (832k kernel code, 412k reserved, 728k data, 44k init)

A 2.2.20pre9 built from the same .config doesn't boot from a zImage (tells
Out of memory) but boots up ok from a bzImage. Its size is the same as above:

Memory: 47136k/49152k available (832k kernel code, 412k reserved, 728k data, 44k init)

When I leave almost everything out of .config, I get this minimal kernel:

-rw-r--r--    1 kaukasoi users      261818 Aug 17 20:01 zImage

which reports this

Memory: 47612k/49152k available (428k kernel code, 412k reserved, 668k data, 32k init)

Even then zImage tells 'Out of memory' but bzImage boots up ok. So it seems
that zImages don't work any longer.