Re: Ok, very stable kernel bug found.

Michael Bruck (micha@tecnet.de)
Fri, 29 Nov 1996 03:40:41 +0100


At 20:14 28.11.1996 -0600, you wrote:
>
>
>Whoa, first contact!
>
>On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Igor Romanenko wrote:
>
>> > Hi. Just found stable kernel bug (occurs in 100%). Requirement:
>> >
>> > 2.0.26, libc 5.4.7, installed on RedHat 4.0, RAR archiver 2.00 beta 3
(the
>> ^^^^^
>> Каковая сама по себе beta

= that itself is a beta

>>
>> > latest) for Linux. If we're archiving Perl 5.003 sources, and stdout
from rar
>> > is redirected to file or /dev/null, kernel says about gpf in 10-20
seconds.
>> > This does not occurs if rar is not redirected.
>> >
>> > PS: Can anoybody say me, why my LILO stopped to work? Just "LI" when
>> > booting, and nothing more. Nothing helps - even "fdisk /mbr" from dos and
>> > then lilo from The Perfect Operating System does not helps. :( But it
>> > worked!
>>
>> А вы часом не меняли LBA на не-LBA или наоборот?

= Maybe you have changed from LBA to non-LBA or back?

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1st question:
Would DOS still run when, when he switched LBA mode? No, because
this changes the C/H/S-mappings. (But maybe he did fdisk /mbr from
floppy-booted-DOS). ... If LILO hangs after LI, it failed to
load the second part of the bootup-code.

2nd question:
What is the status of Linux' Unicode implementation. Will Linux
be prepared for the first contact?

Michael