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| author | Greg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-01-09 23:45:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Schafer <greg@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-01-09 23:45:52 +0000 |
| commit | 1969ceae32f69bcc503324db753472427bd681d4 (patch) | |
| tree | b5a92440e1e189e9e5b474d5448d74625a0227c8 /chapter08 | |
| parent | 29d091b85f96634829efc53ca9f186a4835ee432 (diff) | |
Added --no-mem-option to Grub command line in menu.lst to disable
Grub's insistence on passing mem= to the kernel. Closes 737.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3157 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter08')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter08/grub.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/chapter08/grub.xml b/chapter08/grub.xml index 6ed20b328..5902ef954 100644 --- a/chapter08/grub.xml +++ b/chapter08/grub.xml @@ -88,16 +88,22 @@ color green/black light-green/black # The first entry is for LFS. title LFS &milestone; root (hd0,3) -kernel /boot/lfskernel root=/dev/hda4 ro +kernel --no-mem-option /boot/lfskernel root=/dev/hda4 <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen> +<note><para>By default, Grub will automatically pass a "mem=xxx" command line +argument to the kernel. However, Grub sometimes gets the amount of memory wrong +which can lead to problems in some circumstances. It's best to disable this +functionality and let the kernel determine the amount of memory itself, hence +the use of the <emphasis>--no-mem-option</emphasis> above.</para></note> + <para>You may want to add an entry for your host distribution. It might look like this:</para> <screen><userinput>cat >> /boot/grub/menu.lst << "EOF"</userinput> title Red Hat root (hd0,2) -kernel /boot/kernel-2.4.20 root=/dev/hda3 ro +kernel /boot/kernel-2.4.20 root=/dev/hda3 initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20 <userinput>EOF</userinput></screen> |