Kyle McMartin schrieb:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:40:21PM +0200, Christian Hilgers wrote:I did not know that VFP does such ugly things. So I retried with vmalloc=256M (Is that a reasonable value?)On 64bit kernels, we went to 1GB vmalloc space.
What would be a reasonable value as there is 1GB RAM installed. hmm, now everytime I modify the boot parameter the box does no longer boot at all. This time a boot from network. Searching for device(s) with bootable media This may take several minutes. To discontinue search, press any key (termination may not be immediate). Path# Device Path (dec) Device Path (mnem) Device Type and Utilities ----- ----------------- ------------------ ------------------------- P0 0/0/0/0 lan.10.2.1.8 LAN Module IPL P1 0/0/1/1.2 intscsib.2 Random access media IPL P2 0/0/2/1.2 media.2 Random access media IPL Enter Path Number or Device Path to continue boot sequence. Enter NO to go to main menu. > p0 Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> y Booting... Network Station Address 001083-fc42a3 System IP Address 10.2.1.43 Server IP Address 10.2.1.8 Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 2 HARD Booted. palo ipl 1.14 root@duet Sat Apr 8 16:08:16 EDT 2006 Boot image contains: 0/vmlinux32 4190085 bytes @ 0x9800 0/vmlinux64 5796516 bytes @ 0x408800 0/ramdisk 3224993 bytes @ 0x990000 Information: No console specified on kernel command line. This is normal. PALO will choose the console currently used by firmware (serial).Current command line: 0/linux initrd=0/ramdisk console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 0: 0/linux 1: initrd=0/ramdisk 2: console=ttyS0 3: TERM=vt102 <#> edit the numbered field 'b' boot with this command line 'r' restore command line 'l' list dir ? 3 TERM=vt102 ramdisk_size=125800 vmalloc=2048M Current command line: 0/linux initrd=0/ramdisk console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 ramdisk_size=125800 vmalloc=2048M 0: 0/linux 1: initrd=0/ramdisk 2: console=ttyS0 3: TERM=vt102 4: ramdisk_size=125800 5: vmalloc=2048M <#> edit the numbered field 'b' boot with this command line 'r' restore command line 'l' list dir ? b Command line for kernel: ' console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 ramdisk_size=125800 vmalloc=2048M palo_kernel=0/linux' Selected kernel: /linux from partition 0 Selected ramdisk: /ramdisk from partition 0 Warning: kernel name doesn't end with 32 or 64 -- Guessing... Choosing 64-bit kernelpdc_iodc_bootin() died during seekread I left the box for >10min at this point, nothing else happed. I did power-cycled the box between my tests. Christian