On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Isaac Dupree
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> how do you apply this patch? With `patch -p1` I'm getting:
> 2 out of 4 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> loader/i386/efi/linux.c.rej
>
> any more infos needed?
There maybe some code mixups, try this one:
BTW, are you using a customized kernel ? Some people reports that efi
booting don't work. They have 32-bit firmware just like yours, but
hangs even without the initrd.
diff --git a/loader/i386/efi/linux.c b/loader/i386/efi/linux.c
index ee3fb99..5ace7c0 100644
--- a/loader/i386/efi/linux.c
+++ b/loader/i386/efi/linux.c
@@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ grub_rescue_cmd_initrd (int argc, char *argv[])
lh = (struct linux_kernel_header *) real_mode_mem;
- addr_max = grub_cpu_to_le32 (lh->initrd_addr_max);
+ addr_max = (grub_cpu_to_le32 (lh->initrd_addr_max) << 10);
if (linux_mem_size != 0 && linux_mem_size < addr_max)
addr_max = linux_mem_size;
@@ -612,7 +612,8 @@ grub_rescue_cmd_initrd (int argc, char *argv[])
addr_max -= 0x10000;
/* Usually, the compression ratio is about 50%. */
- addr_min = (grub_addr_t) prot_mode_mem + ((prot_mode_pages * 3) << 12);
+ addr_min = (grub_addr_t) prot_mode_mem + ((prot_mode_pages * 3) << 12)
+ + page_align (size);
/* Find the highest address to put the initrd. */
mmap_size = find_mmap_size ();
@@ -625,8 +626,6 @@ grub_rescue_cmd_initrd (int argc, char *argv[])
desc = NEXT_MEMORY_DESCRIPTOR (desc, desc_size))
{
if (desc->type == GRUB_EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY
- && desc->physical_start >= addr_min
- && desc->physical_start + size < addr_max
&& desc->num_pages >= initrd_pages)
{
grub_efi_physical_address_t physical_end;
@@ -635,6 +634,9 @@ grub_rescue_cmd_initrd (int argc, char *argv[])
if (physical_end > addr_max)
physical_end = addr_max;
+ if (physical_end < addr_min)
+ continue;
+
if (physical_end > addr)
addr = physical_end - page_align (size);
}
--
Bean
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