| Summary: | Grub fails to load large rootfs files | ||
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| Product: | buildroot | Reporter: | Dr I J Ormshaw <ian_ormshaw> |
| Component: | Other | Assignee: | unassigned |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | critical | CC: | buildroot, yann.morin.1998 |
| Priority: | P5 | ||
| Version: | 2023.11.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Host: | x86_64 | Target: | x86_64 |
| Build: | |||
| Attachments: | Patch file | ||
Dr I J Ormshaw, All, This is a grub limitation, so please work with grub upstream to lift that limitation. Once they have accepted a fix, then we can see whether we can backport it or not. Regards, Yann E. MORIN. |
Created attachment 9715 [details] Patch file In some systems grub fails to load the rootfs.cpio as an initrd if it is too large. On the system I am currently testing a 61MB file load successfully while a 174MB file does not. With the larger file grub outputs an out of memory error. The attached patch file allows the system to boot successfully.