From Bugzilla Helper: 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. ***
*** Bug 70653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Should be fixed in new trees.