Re: [Etherboot-developers] Problem with mknbi-linux-1.2-4

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Jim McQuillan <ja...@mc...> writes:

> I'm having a problem with using the latest mknbi-linux, version 1.2-4.
> 
> 
> The new development versions of LTSP are using an initrd tacked onto
> the end of a 2.4 kernel.
> 
> During the download, via TFTP, it downloads almost all of it, then
> fails with '(NBI)... Unable to load file'
> Then, it repeats.
> 
> If I use mknbi 1.2-2, it works great.
> 
> I think I remember Eric B. sending a message at least a month ago, about
> mknbi and initrd images, but I don't have that message anymore.
> 
> Anybody remember this problem ?

There are issues on machines with large amounts of memory 1GB+
mknbi was putting the ramdisk too high in memory.  When 2.4.10
comes out it should be safe to load an initrd anywhere above
the kernels initial page table.  So 8MB+

Eric