On Mo, 2016-04-04 at 16:21 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 04:02:04PM +0100, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > (1) initrd loading is broken, kernel complains it finds only gibberish: > > > > [ 0.934582] Unpacking initramfs... > > [ 1.166983] Initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive > > [ 1.168458] Freeing initrd memory: 32812k freed > > That's strange. I certainly never saw anything like this. I wonder > if it's because your initrd is particularly large?
I've simply used /boot/initramfs-$version from the host. It's 33M. Not exactly small, but given this is a standard RHEL-7 install I also wouldn't rate this as unusual big. > > (2) going back to non-dma boot via -M pc-$old doesn't work, appearently > > fw_cfg dma is enabled even for old machine types. > > IIRC there was a thread about how we accidentally added DMA to old > machine types. Does this matter? That one should be fixed meanwhile. cheers, Gerd
