Re: linux 3.8.12-1 (atari flavour) does not boot
Hi Thorsten,
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:
> ARAnyM cannot boot the latest kernel images (still compiling,
> but I copied out vmlinux.gz):
>
> tglase@tglase:~/stuff/aranym/vm2 $ ./run
> Running Ara2 on X11: :2
> ARAnyM 0.9.15
> Using config file: 'aranym.config.x11'
> Could not open joystick 0
> ARAnyM RTC Timer: /dev/rtc: Permission denied
> ARAnyM LILO: Error loading ramdisk 'root.bin'
> CPU: Double bus fault detected !
> CPU: Halting
>
> Unfortunately, the SDL window stops there. “Headless” does
> not show anything either.
>
> I notice its uncompressed size is 4361000 as opposed to the
> latest previous kernel image of 3790400 bytes (3.2.35-2).
> Is there a known size limit (architectural, like sparc, or
> otherwise)?
Kernel images fail to boot on Atari if they're bigger than 4 MiB.
I also noticed this a while ago when bisecting an allmodconfig boot failure.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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