Re: Possible bug with kernel decompressor.

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Jul 15 2004 - 16:04:14 EST


Matthew Schumacher wrote:

This is what I was using in syslinux that broke with "invalid compressed format (err=2)" after a improper shutdown (only ramdisk mounted).

LABEL linux
KERNEL linux26
APPEND memmap=exactmap memmap=640K@0 memmap=63M@1M console=ttyS0,9600n8 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=rootfs.gz root=/dev/root ramdisk_size=32768 ether=9,0x320,0,0x3c509,eth0 ether=10,0x330,0,0x3c509,eth1 ide0=ali14xx


What happens if you specify mem=64M, which should be the exact equivalent to the above?

-hpa

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