Re: INITRD/SYSLINUX fails on 32M (2.4)

From: Michael Peddemors (michael@wizard.ca)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 18:15:15 EST

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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Included 2 versions of the memory map, one with the MEM=31M option from the
boot loader, and one without. The one without is the one where the INITRD
fails

With the MEM=31M it boots initrd okay:

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
e820: 000000000009f c00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009f c00 (reserved)
e820: 0000000001c80000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
e820: 0000000000100000 @ 00000000f ec00000 (reserved)
e820: 0000000000100000 @ 00000000f ee00000 (reserved)
e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000f f f f 0000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 7936
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 3840 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
LOADER_TYPE, INITRD_START, INITRD_SIZE, 49 32440320 330 // FAKE INITRD.GZ
Kernel command line: mem=31M console=tty0 initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0
BOOT_IMAGE=bzimage auto
<snip>
Memory: 29912k/31774k avaliable (634k kernel code, 1444k reserved, 48k data,
48k init, 0k highmem)
<snip>

Non Working without MEM=31M
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
e820: 000000000009f c00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009f c00 (reserved)
e820: 0000000001c80000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
e820: 0000000000100000 @ 00000000f ec00000 (reserved)
e820: 0000000000100000 @ 00000000f ee00000 (reserved)
e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000f f f f 0000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 7552 // DIFFERENT
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 3840 pages. // DIFFERENT
zone(2): 0 pages.
LOADER_TYPE, INITRD_START, INITRD_SIZE, 49 33488896 330 // FAKE INITRD.GZ
Kernel command line: mem=31M console=tty0 initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/ram0
BOOT_IMAGE=bzimage auto //DIFFERENT (no MEM= option)
<snip>
Memory: 29912k/31774k avaliable (634k kernel code, 1444k reserved, 48k data,
48k init, 0k highmem) //DIFFERENT

> In the meantime... scirtch scritch scritch.
>
> P.S.
> I forgot to ask for your memory map.
>
> -Mike

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