It is for i386-pc family (in fact x86_64 - broad well DE). I need it because I want to boot 1.12G size of initrd.img from USB This is failing because of low mem crunch
Thanks, Ram On 1/17/16, 7:19 PM, "Andrei Borzenkov" <[email protected]> wrote: >18.01.2016 01:36, Ramakrishna Maladi (rmaladi) пишет: >> Hi >> Is there a way to allocate memory which is above 4G for initrd.img in >> grub? >> > >It probably depends on platform, on i386-pc memory allocator is >restricted to 4G address space. Why would you need that? > >> Thanks, >> Ram >> >> On 1/10/16, 12:20 AM, "[email protected] on >> behalf of Ramakrishna Maladi (rmaladi)" >> <[email protected] on behalf of >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> set default=0 >>> serial --unit=0 --speed=51200 >>> >>> terminal_input console >>> terminal_output serial >>> set timeout=5 >>> >>> menuentry "System Install OS" { >>> echo "Booting from USB.." >>> loopback loop /myimage.iso >>> set root=(loop) >>> echo "Loading Kernel.." >>> linux (loop)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/ram install=/dev/sda >>> console=ttyS0,38400 prod=1 crashkernel=192M@0 bigphysarea=10M quiet >>> pci=assign-busses noissu aer=off pci=hpmemsize=0M,hpiosize=0 >>> echo "Loading initrd.." >>> initrd (loop)/boot/initrd.img >>> } >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ram >>> >>> On 1/9/16, 11:49 PM, "Andrei Borzenkov" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 10.01.2016 08:11, Ramakrishna Maladi (rmaladi) пишет: >>>>> Friends, >>>>> On broad well-DE intel CPU chipset when I run grub2.0 to load my >>>>> linux (Windriver destro of) iso file 1.2G, I am seeing an exception >>>>> Would it be the EFI boot sevices issue in BIOS or an known issue on >>>>> grub2.0 ? >>>>> Could you pls point me if there is a patch I need to take in >>>>>grub2.0? >>>>> I have grub2.0 source of 2014. >>>>> >>>>> error: unsupported serial port speed. >>>>> error: terminal `serial' isn't found. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> GNU GRUB version 2.00 >>>>> Press F2 to goto grub Menu.. >>>>> Booting from USB.. >>>>> Loading Kernel.. >>>>> loader/i386/linux.c:535: prot_mode_mem = 2000000, prot_mode_target = >>>>> 2000000, >>>>> prot_size = 124a000 >>>>> loader/i386/linux.c:1225: bzImage, setup=0x3c00, size=0x124a000 >>>>> Loading initrd.. >>>>> loader/i386/linux.c:1440: linux cmd agrc = 1 >>>>> loader/i386/linux.c:1444: argv[0]: (loop)/boot/initrd.img >>>>> ERROR: Class:3000000; Subclass:50000; Operation: 6 >>>>> >>>> >>>> I do not see such error string in current GRUB sources at all. Could >>>>you >>>> attach grub.cfg, otherwise we have no idea what your ISO does. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Help-grub mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub >> > _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
