Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 14 Mar 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > The bounce buffer stuff tries to allocate a buffer at the top > > of memory. It had allocated a buffer just under 512MB so I suspected > > it is that. I am wondering if something is reporting the wrong > > memory size on the board you are having problems with. > > I'm not sure, but this is the ASUS CUA which has been solid for quite some > time now. And memory is size correctly. I think. > > I don't think this is memory corruption, the system comes up fine under > linuxbios and is quite usable (build kernels, etc.); comes up fine under > 9load and boots plan9 and is usable. > > Here is what I think happened. The bounce buffer picked a bogus address > and put an ELF segment up there. The checksum failed and we died. I turned > off checksums. We still died. I relocated pieces of etherboot so we did > not need bounce buffers. We were then OK. I suspect if I turn checksums > back on we will now still be ok. > > Then I need to see why bounce failed.
Sounds like a good course of action. Eric
