Bug 209503 - CD1 fails to boot if there's a hole in memory at 15M
Summary: CD1 fails to boot if there's a hole in memory at 15M
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 210005
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: syslinux
Version: 5.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-10-05 17:26 UTC by Robert Manchek
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-10-31 19:55:32 UTC
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Patch to prevent the problem (1.90 KB, patch)
2006-10-31 19:26 UTC, Robert Manchek 		no flags Details | Diff
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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.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
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 ***
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