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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:44:25 +0000
Subject: Re: initrd_size inflation breaks initramfs
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dann frazier <dannf@hp.com> writes:

> My guess is that this is a bug in elilo.

Try this patch:

--- initrd.c
+++ initrd.c
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@
=20
 	initrd->start_addr =3D start_addr;
=20
+	/* Clear extra memory since we don't pass the exact size.  */
+	Memset(start_addr + size, 0, (pgcnt << EFI_PAGE_SHIFT) - size);
+
 	return ELILO_LOAD_SUCCESS;
=20
 error:

Andreas.

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