Re: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels

Mike Galbraith
2002-10-25T13:29:29Z

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
To: "Mike Galbraith" <EFAULT@gmx.de>
Cc: "Thomas Molina" <tmolina@cox.net>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: loadlin with 2.5.?? kernels

> "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.

(that was someone else)

> > > 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.

Much appreciated. I will test/report back.

-Mike