Re: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels

robert w hall
2002-10-25T21:56:44Z

which version of loadlin does this patch?
Hans Lermen changed the gdt structure in version 1.6b to enable it to
boot a win4lin-enabled kernel - he also changed things recently (1.6c)
to boot kernels of between 0.5 &1.5Mb compressed.

(IF I sat down for half an hour I could comment better.. but you
probably know the answer straight-off anyway :-))
Bob Hall

In article <m1bs5in1zh.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xmission.com> writes
>"Mike Galbraith" <EFAULT@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> (sorry, I have to use this pos at work)
>>
>> Yes. .31 exploded on me after boot, but did not do the violent reboot
>> during boot.
>
>Earlier you had said it was .38 or so where the failures kicked in,
>so I figured it was some other problem.
>
>> > If it is really the gdt I have some old patches that roughly do the
>> > right thing, and I just need to dust them off.
>>
>> You dust them off, and I'll be more than happy to test them. I keep
>> entirely too many kernels resident to want to use lilo.
>
>Here you are.
>The following patch cleans up and removes unnecessary dependencies from
>the x86 boot path.
>
>> (kexec/bootimg wonderfulness solves my problem too. boot into a stable
>> kernel, instant reboot into any one I want. gimme gimme gimme:)
>
>It is getting there...
>I just need to find a formula that makes the linux kernel boot reliably.
>
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>Eric

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robert w hall