Changeset 1969cea for chapter08/grub.xml

Timestamp:

01/09/2004 11:45:52 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Greg Schafer <greg@…>

Branches:

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Children:

45340ae

Parents:

29d091b

Message:

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

File:

• chapter08/grub.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter08/grub.xml

@@ -89 +89 @@
 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
@@ -98 +104 @@
 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>