[syslinux] System freezes after "Loading iramfs.gz... ok"

[R S]

Which vendor and what mainboard model is this happening on?

On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 4:08 PM Erik Rull via Syslinux <
syslinux at syslinux.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> just to finish the topic here - I'm not 100% sure if I posted it already.
>
> The source of evil was a UEFI BIOS version that did not support 32 bit
> booting
> any longer.
> 64 bit kernels just started fine and the board vendor approved this
> assumption -
> only 64 bit booting is supported.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Erik
>
>
> Gregory Bartholomew wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 3:52 AM Erik Rull <erik.rull at rdsoftware.de
> > <mailto:erik.rull at rdsoftware.de>> wrote:
> >
> >     Good point - the zipped file is ~ 17MB and works on other boards...
> Is this
> >     a critical size?
> >
> >
> > 17MB doesn't sound too bad to me. I guess the critical size could be
> dependent
> > on the firmware though. I think what has been loaded into memory prior
> to the
> > initramfs can have an effect as well. If you've chainloaded several
> bootloaders
> > before loading the initramfs (or even looped back and reloaded the same
> > bootloader image several times), there may not be enough free memory
> left to
> > load the initramfs. If you can shorten your boot chain, that might help.
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