overflowed source buffer ... segment exceeding memory

[steven james]

Greetings,


Hrmm, the kernel should be in control by that point. The most likely
problems are kernel compiled fro wrong processor type, and not passing
console=ttyS0,115200n8 (or whatever speed you're using) to the kernel
(using mkelfImage's --command-line switch).

G'day,
sjames
 



On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:17:21AM -0500, steven james wrote:
> > I don't think it's the compression here. I have a working BIOS built from
> > CVS on 11/05/2002. I don't think it matters to this, but I did hack
> > zkernel_start on the fallback image to be fff00000 and modify the linker
> > script to hard code the primary image at fffe0000 - 8.
> 
> OK, well I was doing a bunch of things wrong.  But I'm getting closer.
> 
> First, CVS is using the linuxbios table, but Eric's etherboot-5.1.0 patch
> does not include it.  It is in the 5.0.5 patchset.
> 
> Doing that, etherboot loads the kernel, and jumps to it.
> I've applied Eric's linux-2.4.18-pre7.linuxbios.diff on top of
> 2.4.20-rc1.
> 
> The mkelfImage-1.18 startup code prints "LinuxBIOS" and then does nothing.
> 
> Should I be applying a more recent patch to my kernel? Do I need
> other patches?
> 
> My next step is to sprinkle the mkelfImage header with debugging puts()
> and the kernel startup with early_printk.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> 	-Bill
> 

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