Bug 127587

Summary:	isolinux can't boot with mem=
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	syslinux	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Bill Nottingham 2004-07-09 22:43:25 UTC

On an EM64T box suffering from bug 116766, I attempt to boot with

mem=2G
mem=4G

etc.

In all cases, isolinux appears to corrupt the initrd, as the kernel
a) says it's mounting an ext3 fs as ext2
b) fails to read the filesystem well enough to run init/loader

Booting without mem= works.

Box has 4G of memory, with a hole that makes .5 GB appear from the
4-4.5 GB mark.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-08-05 19:59:29 UTC

Wonder how this works with initramfs.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2005-05-17 15:12:04 UTC

Will reopen this if it ever becomes a problem again.