Re: 2.6.33-rc2-git6 -- Boot fails with "Destination address too large." with recent kernels when compressed with bz2 or lzma (gzip works).

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Jan 05 2010 - 14:59:38 EST


On 01/05/2010 11:55 AM, Miles Lane wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I can get a gzipped kernel to boot (I am running Ubuntu in a WUBI
> FUSE-mounted EXT3 file system that is stored in a 16GB file on my
> Windows NTFS partition). But, when I try to compress the kernel with
> lzma or bz2, the boot fails with "Destination address too large."
>

Known bug (it happens when your sh isn't bash on the compile host, and
possibly some other tools). It's being addressed.

-hpa
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