[bug #33382] Grub won't load initrd on M787CL (VIA C3) board, memory size misdetected?

[Ondrej Zary]

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                 Summary: Grub won't load initrd on M787CL (VIA C3) board,
memory size misdetected?
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: rainbow
            Submitted on: Mon 23 May 2011 09:29:12 PM GMT
                Category: Booting
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: 
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: 1.98
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

GRUB 1.98 (Debian Squeeze) won't load initrd on PC Chips M787CL board (with
integrated VIA C3 CPU). The Linux kernel loads but panics because of missing
root filesystem.

Manually compiled initrd-less kernel boots fine. Also when the hard drive is
connected to another board, it boots fine with initrd.

Initrd works with GRUB Legacy (0.97) but I noticed that it shows too small
upper memory size - just 14MB although there's a 256MB DIMM installed so I
suspect that this might be the problem.

lsmmap output:
base_addr = 0x0, length = 0x9fc00, type = 0x1
base_addr = 0x9fc00, length = 0x400, type = 0x2
base_addr = 0xf0000, length = 0x10000, type = 0x2
base_addr = 0xffff0000, length = 0x10000, type = 0x2
base_addr = 0x100000, length = 0xe00000, type = 0x1
base_addr = 0xf00000, length = 0x100000, type = 0x2
base_addr = 0x1000000, length = 0xedf0000, type = 0x1
base_addr = 0xfdf3000, length = 0xd000, type = 0x3
base_addr = 0xfdf0000, length = 0x3000, type = 0x4




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