> Well, I tried pre-2.1.0 and because I just wanted to test the bootstuff
> I built a small kernel, only with IDE driver configured in.
> It _did_ bomb with Laodlin, however, it also bombs using a DD'ed floppy.
> ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Now have a look at this strangeness:
>
> el16:/usr/src/linux-pre-2.1.0# ls arch/i386/boot/*zI* -l
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5121 Sep 24 11:50 arch/i386/boot/bzImage
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18325 Sep 24 12:30 arch/i386/boot/zImage
>
> el16:/usr/src/linux-pre-2.1.0# ls vmlinux -l
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 678823 Sep 24 12:30 vmlinux*
>
> Dammned good compression ratio, too good if you ask me.
> There is something broken with the boot/compress stuff I think.
> The vmlinux looks good, the System.map looks good, but the (b)zImages
> are broken.
Your objdump is broken. It doesnt work above 2 Giga
I had the same problem with
GNU objdump version 960228.
Don't ask me why it works with objdump 960425.
raw_offset is still a integer:
int raw_offset=0; /* -o */
Jochen
--objdump -k -q -o 0x100000 /home/karrer/linux/vmlinux > hello fseek: Invalid argument fseek: Invalid argument fseek: Invalid argument wpfd25:(p3):~$ ls -al hello -rw-r--r-- 1 karrer rheed 798019 Sep 24 16:58 hello
objdump -k -q -o 0x7f100000 /home/karrer/linux/vmlinux > hello wpfd25:(p3):~$ ls -al hello -rw-r--r-- 1 karrer rheed 1091321160 Sep 24 16:59 hello
objdump -k -q -o 0xC0100000 /home/karrer/linux/vmlinux > hello ls -al hello -rw-r--r-- 1 karrer rheed 1 Sep 24 16:59 hello
with objdump GNU wpfd26/binutils-2.6.0.14/binutils/objdump version 960425 I got
objdump -k -q -o 0xC0100000 /home/karrer/linux/vmlinux > hello ls hello -l -rw-r--r-- 1 karrer rheed 802120 Sep 24 17:05 hello
--Jochen Karrer http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~cip307
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