[parisc-linux] kernel compile

[Grant Grundler]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 09:57:54AM -0700, Paul Bame wrote:
> 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.

Paul,
Are you sure?

267*1048576 == 279969792 == 279,969,792

That's 280MB if I've placed the comas right.

grant