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Re: problem with grub configuration


From: Jeremy Katz
Subject: Re: problem with grub configuration
Date: 08 Feb 2002 15:40:34 -0500

On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 13:25, Janet Anstett wrote:
> I have a problem with the grub configuration on my machine.  I have
> RedHat 7.2 installed on a Dell Precision 410 machine.  I am trying to
> set the amount of memory in the boot command.  All of the stuff that I have
> seen says to put mem=256M at the end of the boot command.  This
> will not work on this particular machine.  I tried to do this on
> another machine and the machine boots fine.  One difference between
> the two machines is the one that works has IDE drives and the one that
> doesn't work has SCSI drives.  

As Pavel replied, this is because grub doesn't take into account mem=
when determining where to load the initrd.  Package with the fix is
sitting at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/grub-0.91-1.7x.i386.rpm.

Actual patch against CVS sent a few minutes ago if you'd rather go that
route (see [PATCH] Parse mem= on Linux kernel command line to change
initrd load address)

Cheers,

Jeremy



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