linux-kernel - Re: system without RAM on node0 boot fail

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Message-ID: <47A16616.9070606@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:09:26 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
CC:	Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@....COM>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: system without RAM on node0 boot fail

Christoph Lameter wrote:
> x86 supports booting from a node without RAM?

 From the looks of it I would say he probably has the boot node numbered 1.

The e820 map is also "interesting" - doesn't list the first 256 bytes, 
which corresponds to the first quarter(!) of the real-mode exception table.

	-hpa
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