On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Mike Klar wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > > On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > In rd.c (rd_open), the following code causes an oops and
> > > > hangs the boot:
> > > >
> > > > if (rd_inode[DEVICE_NR(inode->i_rdev)] == NULL) {
> > > > if((rd_inode[DEVICE_NR(inode->i_rdev)] = igrab(inode))
> != NULL)
> > > >
> atomic_inc(&rd_inode[DEVICE_NR(inode->i_rdev)]->i_bdev->bd_openers);
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > In the third line, i_bdev is null. ...
> >
> > [turned out to be GRUB problem. maybe]
>
> Maybe so, but rd probably ought not to be oopsing here. I ran into the same
> problem while testing initrd recently, and the kernel decided not to load
> the initrd image because initrd start address was >= top of memory. Same
> line of code oopsed. In fact, loading the kernel with root=/dev/ram without
> providing an initrd at all did the same thing.
Greetings,
Can you show me how you generated such an initrd load failure?
-Mike
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