[FIX] Re: [2.2.13] hanging on boot

Matthias Andree (mandree@sx1.HRZ.Uni-Dortmund.DE)
20 Oct 1999 16:40:44 +0200

Dale Harris <rodmur@maybe.org> writes:

> I'm having a strange problem with 2.2.13. It is hanging immediately on
> boot having run out of memory. Is anyone else having this problem? I'm

Yes. I have this problem as well, using the current grub version. (LILO
sucks).

And I have a fix which is not actually mine. The fix was already
necessary for 2.2.13pre18 AFAICS and had been posted to this list
before. I made a patch from the 2.2.13pre reports, find it attached
below. Use: export/save this mail, cd /usr/src/linux ; patch <this-mail

Alan, why haven't these gone into 2.2.13 after pre18 already had these
troubles reportedly? It's not a good idea forcing 2.2.13 out if there
are reported breaking issues to the last -preXX version.

I appreciate good testing, but I am very incontent with getting 2.2.13
that does not even boot. This issue WAS reported and it SHOULD HAVE BEEN
addressed.

BTW:

tools/build -b bbootsect bsetup compressed/bvmlinux.out CURRENT > bzImage
Root device is (3, 7)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 3420 bytes.
System is 757 kB
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/arch/i386/boot'

FIX: patch /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed like this:

--- arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c~ Wed Jun 24 23:30:08 1998
+++ arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c Wed Oct 20 16:29:05 1999
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@
#define LOW_BUFFER_START 0x2000
#define LOW_BUFFER_END 0x90000
#define LOW_BUFFER_SIZE ( LOW_BUFFER_END - LOW_BUFFER_START )
-#define HEAP_SIZE 0x2000
+#define HEAP_SIZE 0x4000
static int high_loaded =0;
static uch *high_buffer_start /* = (uch *)(((ulg)&end) + HEAP_SIZE)*/;

-- 
Matthias Andree


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