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Re: Booting Kernel on Amiga 3000



Hi Michael,

On Fri, 9 Sep 2022, Michael Schmitz wrote:

> 
> I know nothing about the way amiboot works, and how the RAM chunk to 
> copy the initrd image to is selected. 

Same here. This is not a bug I can resolve. It's a bug for someone who 
knows Amiga hardware and amiboot algorithms.

> Just speculating: maybe amiboot plus initrd size must be below 8 MB for 
> the first chunk to get used?
> 
> But that's a little academic. I really wonder what makes the initrd at 
> the end of the second RAM chunk fault. But e.g. the range
> 
> 0f83283d - 10000000
> 
> extends one byte beyond what's mapped
> 
> node   0: [mem 0x0000000008000000-0x000000000fffffff]
> 

Interesting. That's the failure case. But in the success case, that "one 
byte" was always the first byte in the "node 0" mapping. Maybe you're onto 
something.


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