Bug#805965: boot-s390-common, d390.ins: initrd overwrites kernel due to a low offset
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 12:38:16PM +0100, Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
>Package: debian-cd
>Version: 3.1.17
>Severity: important
>
>Dear debian-cd Maintainers,
>
>I recently encountered a problem at the installation of Debian on s390:
>
>The d390.ins specifies where to load the kernel image and the initrd into
>memory. The current d390.ins uses:
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>* Debian GNU/Linux for S/390 (boot from CD-ROM or FTP-Server)
>linux_vm 0x00000000
>root.off 0x0001040c
>root.siz 0x00010414
>parmfile 0x00010480
>root.bin 0x00800000
>--------------------------------------------------------------
>
>The size of the linux_vm is about 11M and the initrd is loaded at
>the memory address 0x00800000 (8M) which overrides the kernel image.
>A result, the kernel and debian installer cannot be started on logical
>partitions (LPAR) on z Systems.
>
>To correct this problem, please update the memory location to which
>the initrd is loaded from 0x00800000 (8M) to 0x02000000 (32MB).
>
>The 0x02000000 memory location is the preferred and commonly used
>memory location. As far as I could see, this affects all d390.ins
>files, as well as, the boot-s390-common files which create the
>root.off file.
ACK, thanks for your report. In fact, just 2 weeks back Philipp Kern
(in CC) has added some fixes in this exact area in debian-cd
git. He's moved the root.bin up to 0x01000000 (16MB); I'd be happy to
move it up to 0x02000000 as you suggest. Phil - what do you think?
I'm also going to make sure the fixes are backported to our stable
build tree for the next point release.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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