Re: Possible bug with kernel decompressor.

[Matthew Schumacher <matt.s@aptalaska.net>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> 
>>
>> I should note that this hardware requires the linux mem/memmap= params 
>> because of the buggy memory detection in the bios so I was required to 
>> use the uppermem command in grub to make it detect the memory and put 
>> the initrd image in the right place.
>>
> 
> Specify, please.
> 
>     -hpa

This is what I am using in grub and it works:

title Linux (2.6.8)
         root (hd0,0)
         uppermem 62464k
         kernel /linux26 memmap=exactmap memmap=640K@0 memmap=63M@1M 
console=ttyS0,9600n8 load_ramdisk=1 root=/dev/root ramdisk_size=32768 
ether=9,0x320,0,0x3c509,eth0 ether=10,0x330,0,0x3c509,eth1 ide0=ali14xx
	initrd /rootfs.gz

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

hope that helps,

schu