From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932301Ab1GNVO0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:14:26 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:45049 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754301Ab1GNVOZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:14:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4E1F5C20.8000008@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:14:08 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John Z. Bohach" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: large initramfs causes h/w reset after decompressing References: <201107140906.46404.jzb2@aexorsyst.com> In-Reply-To: <201107140906.46404.jzb2@aexorsyst.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/14/2011 09:06 AM, John Z. Bohach wrote: > I have a large initramfs cpio file, about 890 MB, which expands to 2.7 > GB, and am running on linux-2.6.36.1, in 64-bit mode with 8 GB of > physical RAM. > > Upon loading the initramfs, I see the message "Decompressing..." for a > few seconds, and then comes a reset. > > This question has come up before...is there some sort of max size. that > I am exceeding? With 8 GB of physical memory and 64-bit arch. > (AMD-II), certainly seems that there should be enough memory, no? > > Thanks... What bootloader are you using? There are some bootloaders which don't allocate the initramfs in a very good spot. -hpa