From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1MJZVS-0003X7-0Y for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:46 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJZVQ-0003W6-BK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:44 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJZVL-0003TN-PJ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:43 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42391 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJZVL-0003TK-Kn for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:39 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:42149) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJZVL-00088z-6P for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:55:39 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MJYS8-0005nm-J6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:48:17 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MJZVI-0001FM-H1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:55:36 +0200 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:55:36 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20090624205536.GB4760@thorin> References: <20090624112049.GU11691@tas> <20090624121159.GC1429@thorin> <20090624131139.GV11691@tas> <1245871088.29850.9.camel@mj> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1245871088.29850.9.camel@mj> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) Subject: Re: support for crashkernel= in 10_linux.in X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:55:44 -0000 On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 03:18:08PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:11 +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: > > > Maybe - my rational was to keep recovery mode as simple as > > possible. And also in case there is a issue with the crashkernel= > > commandlinethe user is still able to use recovery mode (its pretty > > unlikely that there are problems though). > > I think it a patch that could stay in the Ubuntu package for the time > being. It makes assumptions about the kernel that are not correct in > the general case. Uhm what does "384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M" mean? It looks like some sort of address or memory range. Perhaps there's some portable way to obtain this information from the system? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."