[syslinux] Re: Possible bug with kernel decompressor.

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Jul 15 13:58:54 PDT 2004


Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> 
> This is what I was using in syslinux that broke with "invalid compressed 
> format (err=2)" after a improper shutdown (only ramdisk mounted).
> 
>  LABEL linux
>   KERNEL linux26
>   APPEND memmap=exactmap memmap=640K at 0 memmap=63M at 1M 
> console=ttyS0,9600n8 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=rootfs.gz root=/dev/root 
> ramdisk_size=32768 ether=9,0x320,0,0x3c509,eth0 
> ether=10,0x330,0,0x3c509,eth1 ide0=ali14xx
> 

What happens if you specify mem=64M, which should be the exact equivalent to 
the above?

	-hpa




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