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Re: [PATCH] abort when core.img is too big
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: [PATCH] abort when core.img is too big |
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Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:05:04 +0100 |
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Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
> With the addition of memdisk, it is too easy for user to create an image
> big enough that would corrupt upper memory (starting with vga region). This
> happens at roughly ~600 kiB memdisk size.
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> This patch adds a check in grub-mkimage to prevent this. I did also take
> the opportunity to reuse the upper memory macro to avoid hardcoding its
> address for VGA stuff.
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> Comments?
This makes sense to me.
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Marco