From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266281AbUGOUkp (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:40:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266250AbUGOUkp (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:40:45 -0400 Received: from larry.aptalaska.net ([64.186.96.3]:26543 "EHLO larry.aptalaska.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266281AbUGOUkn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:40:43 -0400 Message-ID: <40F6EBC6.7060205@aptalaska.net> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 12:40:38 -0800 From: Matthew Schumacher User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (X11/20040615) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Tim Bird , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syslinux@zytor.com Subject: Re: Possible bug with kernel decompressor. References: <40F490B6.6000106@schu.net> <40F5AE63.5010505@am.sony.com> <40F6C504.9010403@aptalaska.net> <40F6DD54.5040308@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <40F6DD54.5040308@zytor.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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