On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 12:55 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Apparently elilo is trying to allocate 4MB at address 0x100000 (it's > calling AllocatePages(2, 2, 1024, 0x100000)), and the firmware on this > platform reserves the memory from 0x100000 (1MB) to 0x4000000 (64MB) > for its own use. > > Is there a reason that elilo is trying to allocate memory for the > kernel at exactly 0x100000?
It looks like it's reading the start address from the kernel elf header, and 1MB is unfortunately the default. Most distributions enabled CONFIG_RELOCATABLE these days, but the ia32 elilo code probably never got updated to support this like the ia64 side did. Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ elilo-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/elilo-discuss
