Re: Is initrd working?

Re: Is initrd working?

[Adam J. Richter]

On 2002-10-13 at 9:45:38, Witek Krecicki wrote:
>I was trying to run initrd on 2.5.41, 2.5.42, 2.5.42-mm{1,2}, 2.5.42-ac1 
>and it is not working in any case (oopsing just after RAMDISK: Compressed 
>image found...). I've sent decoded oops some time ago, without any 
>response. I cannot even try modular IDE because of that :/
>Please help

	Make sure you are not running CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.  I believe there
is some kind of memory corruption problem under highmem=64g on x86 with
big ramdisks.  I use a ~900kB initial ramdisk that expands to ~2.2MB.

	With CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G or CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM, the problem disappears
for me.  I am writing this email under 2.5.41 with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and
IDE as a module (with a patch that I posted to lkml).

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Re: Is initrd working?

[Witek Krecicki]

On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Adam J. Richter wrote:

> Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 04:31:21 -0700
> From: Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>
> To: adasi@kernel.pl
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Is initrd working?
> 
> On 2002-10-13 at 9:45:38, Witek Krecicki wrote:
> >I was trying to run initrd on 2.5.41, 2.5.42, 2.5.42-mm{1,2}, 2.5.42-ac1 
> >and it is not working in any case (oopsing just after RAMDISK: Compressed 
> >image found...). I've sent decoded oops some time ago, without any 
> >response. I cannot even try modular IDE because of that :/
> >Please help
> 
> 	Make sure you are not running CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G.  I believe there
> is some kind of memory corruption problem under highmem=64g on x86 with
> big ramdisks.  I use a ~900kB initial ramdisk that expands to ~2.2MB.
> 
> 	With CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G or CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM, the problem disappears
> for me.  I am writing this email under 2.5.41 with CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G and
> IDE as a module (with a patch that I posted to lkml).
I've checked this config option:  CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G was enabled. I've 
turned it to NOHIGHMEM, recompiled and it's still not working. ramdisk is 
pretty small (just IDE)
WK

Is initrd working?

[Witek Krecicki]

I was trying to run initrd on 2.5.41, 2.5.42, 2.5.42-mm{1,2}, 2.5.42-ac1 
and it is not working in any case (oopsing just after RAMDISK: Compressed 
image found...). I've sent decoded oops some time ago, without any 
response. I cannot even try modular IDE because of that :/
Please help

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