[ipxe-devel] initrd alignment

Dave Hansen dave at sr71.net
Wed May 29 22:25:54 UTC 2013


On 05/29/2013 06:02 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
> doc/x86/boot.txt talks about kernel_alignment in terms of the alignment
> required by a relocatable kernel; there's nothing which (to me) suggests
> that it applies to initrd images.

I was bugging hpa about it a bit.  He seemed to think that the alignment
was called out in there.  But, I admit it looks a bit fuzzy to me.

> If you change INITRD_ALIGN (in arch/i386/include/initrd.h) from 4 to
> 4096, does that fix the problem?

Yes, that at least makes the warnings go away.



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