From: Ed Swierk <eswierk@arastra.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Longer command line for kexec on i386
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:50:26 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20070725T174305-393@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20070723T172709-232@post.gmane.org>
Ed Swierk <eswierk <at> arastra.com> writes:
> I made the following change to kexec:
>
> [deleted]
>
> but I'm now seeing intermittent corruption of the initrd in the new kernel--a
> few bytes at different locations each time.
>
> I suspect I've neglected some other important changes to the boot protocol.
The corruption is due to a "hardware" bug (qemu), which was in fact corrupting
memory (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/18774). Extending
the command line in kexec somehow made the corruption noticeable.
--Ed
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