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2004 Jul 15
3
Re: Possible bug with kernel decompressor.
...cefully as the 2.4 kernel.
That said, I thought I would try a different boot loader so I installed
grub on the system and it seems to work fine.
I should note that this hardware requires the linux mem/memmap= params
because of the buggy memory detection in the bios so I was required to
use the uppermem command in grub to make it detect the memory and put
the initrd image in the right place.
So in the end it looks like it is a syslinux issue loading the initrd
image but for some reason the 2.4 kernel seems to be just fine with
whatever isn't working right.
I can troubleshoot more if someo...
2007 Nov 10
1
Large vmalloc segments with PXELINUX
...-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6
append initrd=initrds/bladeinitrd-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6.img
enforcing=0 vmalloc=512M
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If I increase vmalloc to 513M, I get errors about not being
able to find a root device, root=<NULL> blah blah blah, kind
of like what happens with grub if you don't use "uppermem."
I'm not sure if the command line is getting clobbered, or
if the initrd is loading in the wrong place. Any suggestions
on how to let pxelinux.0 know where to put things when large
amounts of vmalloc memory are required?
I tried bringing down HIGHMEM_MAX and adjusting the command line
l...