Re: 3.4.0-rc1: No init found

From: Christian Kujau
Date: Wed Apr 04 2012 - 12:45:54 EST


On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 at 18:06, Suzuki K. Poulose wrote:
> > INFO: Uncompressed kernel (size 0x6d4b80) overlaps the address of the
> > wrapper(0x400000)
> > INFO: Fixing the link_address of wrapper to (0x700000)
> > Building modules, stage 2.
> > MODPOST 24 modules
> > ------------
> >
> > I started to see these messages in January (around Linux 3.2.0), but never
> > investigated what it was since the produced kernels continued to boot just
> > fine.
>
> The above change was added by me. The message is printed when the 'wrapper'
> script finds that decompressed kernel overlaps the 'bootstrap code' which does
> the decompression. So it shifts the 'address' of the bootstrap code to the
> next higher MB. As such it is harmless.

OK, good to know that it's harmless. Thanks for the explanation.

Christian.
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