[Etherboot-developers] possible solution to initrd loaded too high

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Some people may be having problems with initrd on BIOSes that implement
the E820 memory size function.  One problem is that mknbi didn't use the
E820 function and in some cases overestimages memory. This in turn
causes the kernel to complain that the initrd is loaded too high. I've
added the E820 capability to mknbi, using Eric Biederman's code in
Etherboot.  You can get a test version of mknbi-1.2-7 from:

	http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/mknbi-1.2-7rc1.tar.gz

It would appreciated if affected users give this a whirl and report
if this solves the problem.

A temporary workaround available to 1.2-6 users is to use the kernel
parameter mem= to specify the real top of memory. mknbi 1.2-6 takes note
of that.