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Bug 209503

Summary: CD1 fails to boot if there's a hole in memory at 15M
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Robert Manchek <robert.manchek>
Component: syslinuxAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Robert Manchek 2006-10-05 17:26:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
On system where E820 reports reserved memory at 15M (but usable after that),
isolinux loads kernel image and ramdisk into first 15M of memory.  When kernel
boots, it uncompresses, clobbering the ramdisk.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.11-3

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Find machine with E820 table that reserves memory at ~15M
2.Boot CD1
3.
  
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Comment 1 Robert Manchek 2006-10-31 19:26:21 UTC 
Created attachment 139891 [details]
Patch to prevent the problem
Comment 2 Andrius Benokraitis 2006-10-31 19:55:32 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210005 ***