From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 02:52:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 02:52:01 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:24336 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 02:51:48 -0400 Message-ID: <3B99BCF4.4050506@transmeta.com> Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 23:38:44 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010801 X-Accept-Language: en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox , Hans Lermen Subject: LOADLIN and 2.4 kernels Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi everyone, I got a bug report of LOADLIN not working with recent -ac kernels, and thought it might have something to do with my recent A20 changes that were added to -ac. However, in trying to reproduce this bug, I have been completely unable to boot *any* 2.4 kernel with LOADLIN-1.6, trying this from Win98 DOS mode. Anyone have any insight into this? I really don't understand how the A20 changes could affect LOADLIN, and it's starting to look to me that there is some other problem going on... -hpa