On 09/26/16 10:26, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > On 26 September 2016 at 07:47, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: >> On September 25, 2016 11:22:04 PM PDT, Sitsofe Wheeler <sits...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> On 26 September 2016 at 03:14, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: >>>> On 09/24/16 08:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: >>>>> >>>>> While trying to PXE boot a Fedora LiveISO on VMware ESXi the kernel >>>>> throws the following warning: >>>>> >>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> The initrd is big because it holds all the files in the ISO (see >>>>> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd for how it >>> was >>>>> made). >>>> >>>> How big is big? >>> >>> The one that matches that backtrace is 1385 Mbytes and was made from a >>> Fedora rawhide ISO. Here are some sizes in megabytes from different >>> versions of Fedora: >>> 960 20/initrd0.img >>> 1416 21/initrd0.img >>> 1379 22/initrd0.img >>> 1430 23/initrd0.img >>> 1492 24/initrd.img > >> And they all fail? > From at least 23 onwards they all continue to boot but give the > previously mentioned warning in dmesg output. > >> Also, is this BIOS or EFI? > Booting from BIOS, not EFI. > >> Also: compressed or uncompressed (if it makes a difference?) > > file reports the following > 20 initrd starts with a gzip header > 21-23 initrds start with a cpio header > 24 and rawhide initrd starts with an xz header > > Looking at livecd-iso-to-pxeboot it seems that the CD's contents is > turned into a gzip'd cpio and then concatenated on the end of the > usual initrd... >
but the warning in free_init_pages() is about alignment, not size... Maybe the concatenation is bad? -- ~Randy
