"Edward S. Marshall" wrote:
>
> [ Executive summary: it looks like LILO is the offender here. Or, more
> accurately, whatever LILO is doing behind the scenes to load the kernel
> and it's interaction with my BIOS. Or, maybe just a screwy BIOS. ;-) ]
I'm guessing it is the INT 15h block mover in the BIOS that's at fault.
> On 18 Jun 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > This sounds like a BIOS problem. Could you please try to boot using
> > SYSLINUX instead (SYSLINUX doesn't use the BIOS block move feature?)
>
> As of the Red Hat 6.1 and 6.2 releases, I haven't had any problems
> actually booting the installation media. However, I had just assumed
> (what's that old saying about assuming?) that RH was shipping zImage
> kernels for the installer. That's the only exposure I've had to SYSLINUX,
> I'm afraid.
They don't. Those are also bzImages.
> Not having a copy of it handy to try out I gave GRUB a whirl on Khimenko's
> advice, which booted both test kernels (the zImage and bzImage 2.2.16)
> without a problem. Since I prefer GRUB anyway (just hadn't gotten around
> to configuring it for this machine), LILO has just bit the dust here. ;-)
>
> [ Actually, maybe not. I'm trying a new BIOS revision tonight to see if
> that clears up the LILO problems. ]
>
> > Also, please try a stripped-down zImage, even if it isn't the feature
> > set you need... we're only interested in if the thing will boot.
>
> I wonder if anyone has actually tried to build a zImage 2.4.0-test1 yet; I
> had to take out damn near everything to get an image small enough that
> LILO wouldn't choke. ;-)
>
> As a final note, 2.4.0-test1-ac21 did actually get past the boot loader
> with GRUB, so it's fine too.
OK. So this is a LILO problem, not zImage/bzImage.
-hpa
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