[Bug 219868] Re: Boot fails with "initrd extends beyond end of memory" after upgrade to Hardy

[Brad Figg]

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is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in a supported
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       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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Title:
  Boot fails with "initrd extends beyond end of memory" after upgrade to
  Hardy

Status in “initramfs-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I have an Olivetti Netstrada 7000 with 4 200MHz Intel Pentium Pro
  processors and 256MB of RAM which was running the server version of
  Feisty.  I upgraded it to Gutsy with "sudo do-release-upgrade" and it
  worked fine, but when I then upgraded to Hardy with "sudo do-release-
  upgrade -d" I found it wouldn't boot.

  The boot error is:

  initrd extends beyond end of memory (0x0ffef173 > ox01000000)
  ACPI: no DMI BIOS year, acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
  Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0)

  So it's complaining that 256MB > 16MB, which whilst being technically
  correct is not very useful.

  The ACPI message is harmless, I get the same with the Gutsy kernel
  that still remains and (fortunately) still works!

  I've attached the dmesg output from the Gutsy kernel and will attempt
  booting with mem=256M.

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