[parisc-linux] kernel compile

[Paul Bame]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 10:37:35AM -0500, Aaron St. Pierre wrote:
> Yes, the boot partition is < 2GB. In fact here is the partion table as 
> reported from fdisk. 
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 9100 MB, 9100044288 bytes
> 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 8678 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *         1        29     29680   f0  Linux/PA-RISC boot
> /dev/sda2            30       267    243712   83  Linux

Your TOC dump indicated a likely death in firmware, which is consistent
with trying to load a kernel from beyond the 2G mark.  Indeed your
/dev/sda2 ends past the 2G mark, so you can expect that sometimes
it'll work and sometimes it won't.

	-P