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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Help? Red Hat fails,
	Suse/Debian both work fine
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:35:17 -0700
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On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 11:29 +0900, Kouya SHIMURA wrote:
> FYI, after more investigation, the problem is related whether to use
> initrd or not. On ia64, the memory area for initrd is not defined in
> dom0's EFI memmap. Dom0 frees this area and reuses it with illegal
> memory attribute. That is a reason why RedHat fails but Suse/Debian
> works.

   Nice work Kouya.  I can confirm that on my end, RedHat was the only
distribution that required me to use an initrd.  Thanks,

	Alex