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Re: booting & HIGHMEM64G

To: Vinh Ly <vly@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: booting & HIGHMEM64G
From: Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 09:02:37 +1100
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:59:03PM -0800, Vinh Ly wrote:
> 
> kernel=2.6.0-test* (SMP)
> distro=RedHat 9 w/ XFS
> glibc=2.3.2-27.9
> xfs-cmds=1.3.1
> 
> When I compile the kernel w/ HIGHMEM64G=y, it will fail to boot.
> The error message is:
> 
>       Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel
> 
> Using the kernel option mem with a number less than
> 4 GB will boot fine, ie, mem=3500M.
> In other words, compiling it w/ HIGHMEM4G=y boots OK.
> 
> The 2.4.22 kernel doesn't have a problem w/ HIGHMEM64G=y.
> 
> (BTW, I upgraded to lilo version 22.5.8, but it didn't help.)
> 
> Any ideas of what I should try next?

This is with an XFS root filesystem I assume?  To isolate
the problem to XFS, could you try an ext2 root (e.g. on a
different partition).

thanks.

-- 
Nathan


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