Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:08:27 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Sony S170 + 1GB ram => Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0000 |
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Lincoln D. Durey wrote: >> well, it must be the boot loader, as the kernel didn't add that, and we >> didn't ... looking at the GRUB source ... ARGH: we see in stage2/boot.c in >> that big comment about boot proto 2.03 that grub is indeed adding kernel >> command line options, (even to 2.4.24 and 2.6.8). How can this be? Their >> code says it shouldn't, but it does.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:44:36PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, good to know that the kernel was correct, but it might be worthwhile > trying to debug why grub thinks it should do it's (incorrect) memory map. > Also, I'd suggest somebody send the grub team a patch to remove the whole > damn mess, I doubt anybody who installs a new bootloader is interested in > installing a buggy one. > Pretty much every kernel has done a better job of memory sizing than grub > seems to do, and I suspect even the "pre-2.4.14" case was just a total bug > in grub, and nothing else.
The grub mem= is a major screwup. It's worse than that, though. grub also hardcodes MAXMEM, which it should obtain from the bzImage.
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