Bug 75311 - please update loadlin
Summary: please update loadlin
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: dosfstools
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 70653 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-07 06:30 UTC by Tom Wzietek
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:47 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-02-07 21:42:03 UTC
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Description Tom Wzietek 2002-10-07 06:30:35 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
the version of loadlin included with the current redhat release is 1.6 which 
was reported to have problems handling large kernels. please update loadlin to 
1.6c which solves this problem. the latest version of loadlin can be downloaded 
from:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/loadlin/loadlin-1.6/update-1.6c

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot a large linux kernel using loadlin 1.6
2. wait for "invalid compressed format. system halted"	

Additional info:
*** i realize this problem is not with dosfstools
but there was no loadlin or other accurate category. ***

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-02-07 21:30:50 UTC
*** Bug 70653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2003-02-07 21:42:03 UTC
Should be fixed in new trees.


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