From: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: initrd_size inflation breaks initramfs
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:23:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1133159027.6062.98.camel@localhost> (raw)
hey,
I've been trying to track down why initramfs seems to be broken on
ia64 when passed using the initrd= flag. This appears to be due to an
inflated ia64_boot_param->initrd_size. In my case, initrd_size got set
to 1957888 (which happens to be a multiple of 4K), when my initramfs
file is actually 1957415 bytes.
unpack_to_rootfs() expects gunzip() to succeed until it has reached the
initrd_size. Since it thinks the image is larger than it actually is,
it runs off the end of the initrd and the initramfs footprinting fails.
I can get unpack_to_rootfs to succeed by hardcoding my initrd_size.
My guess is that this is a bug in elilo.
initrd.c has:
/* round up to get required number of pages (4KB) */
initrd->pgcnt = pgcnt = EFI_SIZE_TO_PAGES(size);
initrd->pgcnt is later used to calculate the initrd_size boot param, but
it is now (size % 4096) bytes too big.
--
dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
next reply other threads:[~2005-11-28 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-28 6:23 dann frazier [this message]
2005-11-28 9:44 ` initrd_size inflation breaks initramfs Andreas Schwab
2005-11-28 15:57 ` dann frazier
2005-11-28 16:15 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-11-28 16:24 ` dann frazier
2005-11-28 16:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2005-11-28 16:28 ` dann frazier
2005-11-28 16:45 ` Brett Johnson
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