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Re: Can't configure grub to use less memory
From: |
Jeremy Katz |
Subject: |
Re: Can't configure grub to use less memory |
Date: |
23 Jan 2002 18:54:07 -0500 |
On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 17:19, Darren Gamble wrote:
> Lastly, we also tried to manually add "mem=800M" onto the end of the kernel
> boot line. The GNU grub faq suggests to do this, and kickstart also does
> this if it's specified in its configuration. If that's done, when the
> machine boots the root filesystem doesn't get found and the system halts.
> Bootup reports:
The problem is that GRUB doesn't properly follow the Linux/i386 boot
protocol. Someone filed something similar in bugzilla a few months ago,
but I just got around to really looking at it and pinning down the
problem last night. Basically, the problem is that grub needs to parse
the mem= and change where it loads the initrd accordingly instead of
just loading it at the top of its detected memory area. I started
working on it then, but got distracted by sleep :) Hopefully I'll get
around to finishing it in the next few days-ish.
Cheers,
Jeremy