Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:55:41 +0000 ( ) | From | Aaron Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.0-final |
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It is the "Tecra bug". You need to use zImage, the broken BIOS in some toshiba laptops just can't deal with the bzImage. I don't know why it works with 2.0.x though. However, the bug is in your hardware.
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On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Tom. > > >>>> 1. If I compile a 2.2.0-pre9 kernel with "make bzImage", the > >>>> resulting kernel does NOT boot up on my Toshiba laptop - it > >>>> just reports "Out of memory, system halted". Compiling a > >>>> 2.0.36 kernel with "make bzImage" results in one that DOES > >>>> boot up, and runs quite happily... > > >>> Interesting - I saw this happen on my Toshiba laptop with -pre6 > >>> so I switched to zImage and got it working. Once I had a working > >>> zImage, I made a bzImage with the same .conf and that one worked. > >>> I'm now running -pre9 bzImage with no problems. > > >> Having read that last night, I went home and used "make zImage" > >> and "make bzImage" on the configuration that "make zImage" worked > >> on the said laptop, copied them both over to the laptop, made > >> entries in /etc/lilo.conf for both of them, then tried them both > >> out... > > >> Once again, the zImage version worked, and the bzImage version > >> didn't, so there's definately something here - and, since they're > >> both built from the same configuration file... > > >> Mind if I ask a couple of questions: > > >> 1. How much RAM do you have, Tom? > > > 32 MB. > > >> 2. Is there a minimum RAM size for bzImage to work? > > > Don't know. > > Neither do I, but given the above answers, I have to assume it does > indeed have a minimum RAM size, and that minimum is somewhere between > the 12M that I have and the 32M that you have... > > Alan: Any ideas? > > Best wishes from Riley. > > --- > * ftp://ftp.MemAlpha.cx/pub/rhw/Linux > * http://www.MemAlpha.cx/~rhw/kernel.versions.html > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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