Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:11:38 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Unable to turn paging on!! |
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ravikumar.chakaravarthy@amd.com wrote: > I tweaked the kernel and boot loader to load the kernel at 0xdf000000, physical address. I did the following changes to setup the initial page table. > > However during boot, in arch/i386/kernel/head.S when the paging bit is set > movl %eax,%cr0 /* ..and set paging (PG) bit */ > > My computer hangs!! > > Any idea why?? > > -Ravi
The kernel can only be loaded into memory that is directly mapped, which is the first 960MB. Why do you need to change the load address?
-- Brian Gerst
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