Re: Latest kernel doesn't boot

Thomas Meyer
2008-02-09T18:39:36Z

H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
> Thomas Meyer wrote:
>> H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
>>> Thomas Meyer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can not revert the commit
>>>> e429795c68d3001ecae74f6465420c9f043b0ece. it gave me errors.
>>>> but i'm also not sure what could be wrong with this commit!
>>>>
>>>> my first idea was that the commit
>>>> "[2215e69d2cf5024647f9a034807990590d25dd4e] x86 boot: use E820
>>>> memory map on EFI 32 platform" is the offender, because the macbook
>>>> pro doesn't provide a e820 memory map at all. but bisect showed
>>>> that i'm wrong here?!
>>>>
>>>
>>> ELILO is expected to convert the memory map from EFI to e820 format.
>> I'm using elilo-3.6-ia32.efi provided at the elilo homepage. i
>> wasn't able to create a working efi toolchain :-(
>> Does elilo-3.6 already do the converting of the memory map, or not?
>
> Don't know.
3.6 doesn't do the mapping in ia32/system.c create_boot_params().
3.8 does.

The problem is, that i wasn't able to produce a working elilo.efi files
with my gentoo toolchain. the files elilo-3.8.efi provided by the elilo
project also doesn't work (gives a load error from the efi runtime).

So i guess i'm stuck here.

It should be noted somewhere that with Huangs patches, elilo version 3.8
is needed.