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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthew Schumacher <matt.s@aptalaska.net>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, syslinux@zytor.com
Subject: Re: Possible bug with kernel decompressor.
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:58:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40F6F00E.4030400@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40F6EBC6.7060205@aptalaska.net>

Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

What happens if you specify mem=64M, which should be the exact equivalent to 
the above?

	-hpa


  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-15 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-14  1:47 Possible bug with kernel decompressor Matthew Schumacher
     [not found] ` <40F5AE63.5010505@am.sony.com>
2004-07-15 17:55   ` Matthew Schumacher
2004-07-15 19:39     ` [syslinux] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-15 20:40       ` Matthew Schumacher
2004-07-15 20:58         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-07-16 15:57 ` Meelis Roos

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