Re: 2.2.0-final

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
25 Jan 1999 17:08:26 GMT

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990124192121.13755B-100000@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>
By author: Riley Williams <rhw@BigFoot.Com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > 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.
>
> Ah...that certainly makes sense...
>
> Just to satisfy my curiosity, any idea exactly how the said bug hits?
> There's obviously some part of the bzImage algorithm that's rather
> susceptible, that's not in the zImage algorithm, but as I don't have
> much idea how either algorithm works...
>

The "Tecra bug" was presumed solved in early 2.1.x. We do also know
there are some systems which uses incredibly broken A20-gating
mechanisms out there.

We need as much info on your system as is possible (CPU, memory, etc.)

-hpa

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