Pentium II doesn't like LZMA compressed ramdisks

Discussion in 'all things UNIX' started by Gullible Jones, Aug 9, 2012.

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  1. Gullible Jones

    Gullible Jones Guest

    Further experimentation with the Thinkpad 600E has revealed that it will fail to decompress initial ramdisks that use the XZ or LZMA compression algorithm, resulting in a kernel panic. Failure to decompress XZ/LZMA compressed files never occurs under any other circumstances.

    Anyone know why this is? Any workarounds?
     
    Gullible Jones, Aug 9, 2012
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  2. Gullible Jones

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    Bumped because I managed to fix it - it was a BIOS bug of some sort, and updating to BIOS revision 1.15 got rid of it.
     
    Gullible Jones, Sep 8, 2012
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  3. Hungry Man

    Hungry Man Registered Member

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    Having a pentium II in 2012 should be illegal.
     
    Hungry Man, Sep 8, 2012
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  4. ComputerSaysNo

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    Agreed.
     
    ComputerSaysNo, Sep 8, 2012
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