This looks fine. I intended to do this myself, but have not been upload enabled recently, nor have had enough time to test large-memory on older machines. My estimate though is that anything P3-era or newer has a new enough BIOS to handle large-memory.
That said, this looks like the best solution for this bug. William On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 15:05 +0900, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > [Please reply to myself, the bug and the list] > > As part of the bug sprint for cookies, I've been assigned to fix an RC > bug in lilo (#479607 and clones). Since I don't know assembly, my > proposed fix will be to add a debconf prompt asking if the person doing > the upgrade wants to add the large-memory option to their configuration > file. I will also add a NEWS.Debian file so that other sysadmins may > receive information about the issue and a README.Debian entry with full > info about the issue and extra tips for solving it. It would be great if > debian-l10n-english could review the text for these three parts: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > NEWS.Debian entry > > lilo (1:22.8-6) unstable; urgency=low > > lilo may fail to boot with a large kernel+initrd. Please read > README.Debian for ways to work around this problem. > > -- Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:24:04 +0800 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > debconf question: > > Template: lilo/add_large_memory > Type: boolean > Default: true > _Description: Do you want to add the large-memory option? > By default lilo loads the initrd file into the first 15Mb of memory > to avoid a BIOS limitation with older systems (earlier than 2001). > . > Unfortunately with newer kernels the combination of kernel and initrd > may not fit into the first 15Mb of memory and so the system will not > boot properly. It seems that the boot issues appear when the > kernel+initrd combination is larger than 8MB. > . > If you have a newer BIOS without the 15Mb limitation, you can add the > large-memory option to /etc/lilo.conf to tell lilo to use more memory > for passing the initrd to the kernel. You will need to re-run lilo > to make this option take effect. > . > If you have an older BIOS you may need to reduce the size of the initrd > *before* rebooting, please see README.Debian for tips on how to do that. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > README.Debian entry: > > --[ Large initrd files and lilo > > By default lilo loads the initrd file into the first 15MB of memory > to avoid a BIOS limitation with older systems (earlier than 2001). > > Unfortunately with newer kernels the combination of kernel and initrd > may not fit into the first 15MB of memory and so the system will not > boot properly. > > If you have a newer BIOS without the 15MB limitation, you can add the > large-memory option to /etc/lilo.conf to tell lilo to use more memory > for passing the initrd to the kernel. You will need to re-run lilo > to make this option take effect. > > If you have an older BIOS you will need to reduce the size of the initrd > *before* rebooting. > > If you are using initramfs-tools, you should replace MODULES=most with > MODULES=dep in your configuration and regenerate your initrd file: > > sed -i -e s/MODULES=most/MODULES=dep/ /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf > update-initramfs -u > > If you are using yaird or any other initrd generator, please consult > the documentation for your initrd generator. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
