6 MB limit of initrd

[Paul Nasrat]

On 6 Feb 2008, at 15:54, Gerhard Tonn wrote:

> Scott Moser schrieb:
>> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Gerhard Tonn wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am facing the problem that yaboot can't handle an initrd of more  
>>> than
>>> 6 MB. I tried the yaboot from head from
>>> http://people.fedoraproject.org/~pnasrat/yaboot , since I read on
>>> -devel, that the 6 MB problem has been fixed in head.
>>> <http://people.fedoraproject.org/%7Epnasrat/yaboot>
>>>
>>> When running this yaboot, I get
>>>
>>> Claim failed for initrd memory
>>> ramdisk load failed !
>>> ENTER called ok
>>>
>>> Anybody any idea?
>>>
>>
>> Please try building with commit  
>> c8b04c614770870d75825c19bcd4729cc779b84a
>> backed out (ie: git-checkout -f; git-show c8b04c61 | patch -p1 -R ;  
>> make
>> clean ; make
>>
>> I have a colleague who was having a similar problem on a power5 lpar
>> system with firmware at SF240_332 .  Doing the above fixed the  
>> problem.
>> He's now able to netboot 6MB+ kernels.
>>
>>
>>
> Thanks, that helps indeed.

Thanks for the confirmation and the patch, I'll revert and apply your  
patch tonight.

I'll try chase up Leo to find out what systems were tested with that  
commit.

Paul