Re: Booting Kernel on Amiga 3000

[Stephen Walsh <vk3heg@vk3heg.net>]

Hi Finn,

On 2022-09-08 08:19, Finn Thain wrote:

> >     Kernel command line: ignore_loglevel -r initrd.img-5.19.0-1-m68k
> > root=/dev/sda2 fb=false debug=mem BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinux-5.19.0-1-m68k
> >
> > Hence Amiboot didn't provide the initrd...
>
> Okay, so the first couple of logs Stephen sent used the correct command
> line. From those we can see,
>
> Success:
> [    0.000000] initrd: 0783283d - 08000000
> Failure:
> [    0.000000] initrd: 0f7f81c2 - 10000000

> Stephen, can you please confirm that (given the correct bootloader
> command) 5.15 does indeed oops when presented with an initrd that's 8 
> MiB
> (8388608 bytes) or larger? And conversely, 5.18 does not oops when
> presented with an initrd that's smaller than 8 MiB?

I'll have to re-test when I get home tonight, as I've gone through many 
attempts.

I was thinking this morning that perhaps amiboot/kernel/intrid is having 
issues with the larger size.



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Stephen - vk3heg