[syslinux] Using memdisk with grub2 and a gzip-compressed ISO

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Wed Apr 29 11:42:10 PDT 2015


On Apr 29, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> В Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:23:09 -0400
> David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> пишет:
> 
>> 
>> When booting the box with grub2 2.02, it does not work.  The error is:
>> 
>>  Ramdisk at 0x37979000, length 0x0033b290
>>  gzip image: decompressed addr 0xbfff7000, len 0x00008f58: failed
>>  Decompression error: output buffer overrun
>> 
> 
> Could you test attached patch? While I'm past this message using your
> archive, in qemu-kvm it hangs after "... booting ..." and in
> qemu-system-i386 I get something that looks like memory corruption with
> occasional crash when initrd is uncompressed.

Thanks for the patch - this boots successfully for me.

David




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