address@hidden: Bug#110793: should not secretly pass options to the kernel]

[Jason Thomas]

Hi can anyone on help with this. 

----- Forwarded message from Wessel Dankers <address@hidden> -----

> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 13:07:38 +0200
> From: Wessel Dankers <address@hidden>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
> Subject: Bug#110793: should not secretly pass options to the kernel
> 
> Package: grub
> Version: 0.90-7
> Severity: important
> 
> GRUB appends a mem= option to the linux command line without reporting this
> during installation, at boot time or anywhere else.
> 
> Apparently this can be disabled with the --no-mem-option but I couldn't
> even find this back in the documentation.
> 
> Why is this so important? According to Andreas Franck <address@hidden> on
> Linux Kernel Mailing List:
> 
> So when specifying a mem=... on the command line, all the information from    
>   
> the E820 tables is lost, and the ACPI memory ranges are not allocated as      
>   
> iomem resources. With a mem=... option, they do not show up in /proc/iomem,   
>   
> without it they do nicely. [...]
> 
> I STRONGLY recommend that --no-mem-option become the default mode of
> operation, the few people who need it should be able to specify --mem-option
> to get the old behaviour back.
> 
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux urk 2.4.7-xfs #1 Thu Jul 26 11:46:36 CEST 2001 i686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
> 
> Versions of packages grub depends on:
> ii  libc6                     2.2.4-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
> an
> ii  libncurses5               5.2.20010318-3 Shared libraries for terminal 
> hand
> 
> 

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