Messages in this thread | | | From | "Alexander van Heukelum" <> | Subject | Re: Patch "i386: Relocatable kernel support" causes instant reboot | Date | Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:45:57 +0100 |
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:59:22 +0100, "Jean Delvare" <khali@linux-fr.org> said: > Hi Vivek, > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:43:26 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:13:54PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 06:38:14 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > > Looks like it might be a tool chain issue. I took Jean's config file and > > > > built my own kernel and I am able to boot the kernel. But I can't boot > > > > his bzImage. I observed the same behaviour as jean is experiencing. It jumps > > > > back to BIOS. > > > > > > I can only confirm that. I installed a more recent system on the same > > > hardware, rebuilt a kernel from the same config file, and now it boots > > > OK. So it's not related to the hardware. It has to be a compilation-time > > > issue. > > > > Looks like you have already trashed your setup. If not, is it possible to > > No, of course I didn't. I installed the new system on a different hard > disk drive. > > > upload the output of "objdump -D arch/i386/boot/setup.o"? This will give > > some info regarding what assembler is doing. > > Here you go: > http://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/linux/relocatable-bug/setup.asm
Hi,
Hmm. taking a peek at the bzImage there...
00001d80 41 00 56 45 53 41 00 56 69 64 65 6f 20 61 64 61 |A.VESA.Video ada| 00001d90 70 74 65 72 3a 20 00 00 00 b8 00 00 55 aa 5a 5a |pter: ......U.ZZ| 00001da0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00001e00 4e 35 13 00 1f 8b 08 00 23 a4 89 45 02 03 b4 fd |N5......#..E....| -- -- -- -- ^^ ^^ ^^
This is the end of the realmode kernel, and it should be followed by the 32-bit code that is to be executed at (normally) 0x100000, right? This is however not the case here. Where did arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.S go then? What is the significance of this value 0x0013354e? It is in fact exactly the size of the compressed kernel image.
I have no idea what went wrong, but it went wrong in the build process of the bzImage.
Hope this helps, Alexander
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