Re: initrd breaks if VMALLOC_RESERVE is increased - Linux

[Timothy Baldwin]

On Thursday 08 January 2004 18:45, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Thursday 08 January 2004 19:03, Glenn A Diehl wrote:
> > I found that if I change VMALLOC_RESERVE in
> > /usr/src/linux/include/asm/page.h from:
> >     #define VMALLOC_RESERVE (128<<20)
> > to:
> >     #define VMALLOC_RESERVE (256<<20)
>
> Why do you need such a change?
>
> Anyway, this is an issue on Linux rather than GRUB. If you need to
> change the location of an initrd, you can set it in a kernel header.
> See Documentation/i386/boot.txt in your Linux source tree for more
> info.

Changing that #define changes the kernel header, however GRUB ignores the 
kernel header and puts the the initrd at a too large address. See my other 
message on this thread for a patch.


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