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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