address@hidden: Re: Bug#119574: grub: per default passes mem option]

[Jason Thomas]

Hi all, some help with this would be appreciated.

basically even though I have specified the option to configure to
disable passing the mem= option, it is still being passed for Christian.
I am not seeing this problem on my machine! has anyone else seen this
problem?

Thanks.

----- Forwarded message from Christian Kurz <address@hidden> -----

> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:35:23 +0100
> From: Christian Kurz <address@hidden>
> To: Jason Thomas <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: Bug#119574: grub: per default passes mem option
> 
> On 15/11/01, Jason Thomas wrote:
> > my kernel command line: 
> > Kernel command line: root=/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 ro
> 
> Well, I had to reboot my machine today, and then checked dmesg:
> 
> |Kernel command line: mem=131056K
> 
> So the mem option was passed to the kernel.
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:31:15PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote:
> > > On 01-11-15 Jason Thomas wrote:
> > > >        # Add here commands to configure the package.
> > > >         ./configure \
> > > >         --prefix=/ \
> > > >         --exec-prefix=/ \
> > > >         --mandir=\$${prefix}/usr/share/man \
> > > >         --infodir=\$${prefix}/usr/share/info \
> > > >         --datadir=\$${prefix}/usr/lib \
> > > >         --disable-auto-linux-mem-opt
> > > >         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > here    ^^
> > > > 
> > > > Or does it still pass it anyway if yes I can query this upstream!
> > > 
> > > Yes, after I booted a new kernel today, i checked the dmesg output and
> > > it contained:
> > > 
> > > |Kernel command line: mem=131056k 
> > > 
> > > (Not sure about the part after the colon, because I add --no-mem-option,
> > > before having to reboot).
> > 
> > what is this option                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > the grub package already has the configure option I showed you above.
> > which disables the mem option. is it possible you have it in your
> > menu.lst?
> 
> |[salem:~]-13> grep mem /boot/grub/menu.lst
> |zsh: exit 1     grep mem /boot/grub/menu.lst
> 
> So, there's nowhere an entry containing mem and the entry which I used
> to boot my machine right, is this one:
> 
> |title  GNU/Linux 2.4.15-pre4
> |root   (hd0,0)
> |kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.15-pre4
> 
> So, as you can see there's nowhere an option mem specified, but grub
> seems to insist on passing the mem option to my kernel on the command
> line as the dmesg output says.
> 
> Christian
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