problem in gunzip kernel!

Ronald G. Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Mon Dec 9 10:07:00 CET 2002


On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Terry B. Chen wrote:

> 
> 
> I met problem in gunzip my linux kernel:
> The message in serial console is :
> January 2000, James Hendricks, Dale Webster, and Ron Minnich.
> Version 0.1
> 
>    203:init_bytes() - zkernel_start:0xfff80000  zkernel_mask:0x0000ffff
> Searching for 16 byte tags
>     64:rom_read_bytes() - overflowed source buffer. max_block = 7
> init_bytes found 0 tags
> Gunzip setup
> gunzip_setup
> output data is 0x00100000
> Gunzipping boot code
> bad gzip magic numbers
> 
> I think we may have error in zkernel_start address or there is a Tag in
> linux kernel we must do something?

no, the problem is that ELF_BOOT is not set to 1. This is the wrong set of 
messages to get. You've got something configured wrong.

ron




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