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SubjectRe: Messages "ACPI attempting to access kernel owned memory"?
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Hello Alan, hello linux-kernel,

> > No, your code is all right, I have found the cause of this behaviour:
> > it's because I boot with GRUB and not with LILO. So, you might say "What
> > the hell does the bootloader matter", and this is what I also thought in
> > the first hours, until I noticed that GRUB was adding a "mem=524288K"
> > entry to my
>
> This is a known problem with old versions of GRUB. Up to date versions of
> grub shouldnt be passing mem= lines.

So I'll try to get a newer GRUB, the --no-mem-option suggestion from Jan
Niehusmann didn't work for me (using GRUB version 0.5.96.1). But,
nevertheless, shouldn't this be fixed (not reserving ACPI memory when a mem=
commandline is passed)? Or, at least documented somewhere?

Greetings,
Andreas

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