Problems booting a 64k page kernel

aglitke agl at us.ibm.com
Fri Nov 30 02:12:56 EST 2007


Michael, thanks for your reply...

I am seeing the segmentation fault both on the default SLES10 initrd and
the default RHEL5.1 initrd.  Therefore, I am reasonably sure this is a
problem with my kernel build and not the initrd itself.

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:39 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 16:50 -0600, aglitke wrote:
> > Hello all.  I am new to building 64k page kernels and can't seem to get
> > one to boot correctly.  Everything looks okay until init gets a signal
> > 11 while booting.  Attached is my boot log and the kernel config I used.
> > To generate this config I merely enabled the 64k page option in make
> > menuconfig to alter a previously working config.
> > 
> > Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I've seen that happen with an init linked with uClibc, its dynamic
> loader was doing mmap with MAP_FIXED on non-64K aligned addresses.
> What user space are you using?
> 
> cheers
> 
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Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center




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