linux-kernel - Re: increasing memory alloted for 'init' during kernel boot.

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Date:	Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:51:54 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Prabhu Chawandi <prabhu.chavandi@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, listar@...linux.org
Subject: Re: increasing memory alloted for 'init' during kernel boot.

On 08/31/2010 10:43 AM, Prabhu Chawandi wrote:
> Hi ,
> 
> Thanks for the info...
> 
> Problem I am facing is, I have two bootloaders, when I boot from one
> loader booting happens properly.
> 
> but when I try to load from other loader, kernel does not boot, it
> crashes. When i saw the boot logs, I saw that I memory allocated to
> 'init' section in case of crash is short by almost 5MB to the normal
> boot log.
> 
> I am using mips processor.
> 
> Any idea, why this might be happening ?

The bad loader probably loads the image wrong (incorrect data or not
whole image).

regards,
-- 
js
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