On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, you wrote:
Sigh, been working on this all day today.. decided to track this down once
and for all...
Stripped a bunch of printk out so I could see what was flashing by all the
time and changed the vidmode....(I thought it was just the RAM map <sheepish
grin>)
Sure enough.. There is something important there....
initrd extends beyond end of memory (0x01ff932d > 0x01d80000)
I put in a printk and get back LOADER_TYPE=49 INITRD_START=3276800
Hmmm.. That looks real wrong... Is it a fault with trying to prink
LOADER_TYPE as a %d or is it really seeing 49
Strange why this (2.4 vs 2.2) kernel works different tho.. Something MUST
have changed.
So that puts me back to where I started, looking at:
/* LOADER_TYPE is setup from empty_zero_page as PARAM+ 0x210 in
i386/kernel/setup.c */
/* INITRD_START is setup from empty_zero_page as PARAM+ 0x218 in
i386/kernel/setup.c */
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
if (LOADER_TYPE && INITRD_START) {
printk("LOADER_TYPE and INITRD_START valid, %d %d
\n",LOADER_TYPE,INITRD_START);
if (INITRD_START + INITRD_SIZE <= (max_low_pfn <<
PAGE_SHIFT)) { reserve_bootmem(INITRD_START,
INITRD_SIZE);
initrd_start =
INITRD_START ? INITRD_START + PAGE_OFFSET : 0;
initrd_end = initrd_start+INITRD_SIZE;
}
else {
printk("initrd extends beyond end of memory "
"(0x%08lx > 0x%08lx)\ndisabling initrd\n",
INITRD_START + INITRD_SIZE,
max_low_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
initrd_start = 0;
}
}
#endif
<OLDER KERNEL>
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
if (LOADER_TYPE) {
initrd_start = INITRD_START ? INITRD_START + PAGE_OFFSET : 0;
initrd_end = initrd_start+INITRD_SIZE;
if (initrd_end > memory_end) {
printk("initrd extends beyond end of memory "
"(0x%08lx > 0x%08lx)\ndisabling initrd\n",
initrd_end,memory_end);
initrd_start = 0;
}
}
#endif
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