Crash kernel x86-32: BzImage is not relocatable. Can't be used as capture kernel.

[Pedro Francisco]

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Pedro Francisco
> <pedrogfrancisco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> -snip
>>
>> Any idea if this is possible to workaround?
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=282406 says "And bad
>> news: x86-32 couldn't be recompiled as relocatable. This option
>> automatically disabled at compilations" but I'm hoping there is some
>> way to workaround this...
>
> It was disabled for 32-bit kernels in the 3.3 timeframe.  There was a
> binutils bug that caused silent kernel corruption on 32-bit relocatable
> kernels and the best option at the time was to disable it.
>
> You can probably enable it by removing the CONFIG_RELOCATABLE line in
> config-x86-32-generic and rebuilding the kernel.

I decided to open a bug report. Thanks for the info, it was of use in
the bug report ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858761 ).