Re: [Qemu-discuss] big mips64-64 initrd does not boot

[Jakob Bohm]

On 08/09/2016 11:29, Dennis Luehring wrote:
> i've got two cleanly build mips64-764 initrds (based on cross linux 
> from scratch, gcc 6.1 and linux kernel 4.7) that i want to boot with qemu
>
> initrd.cpio ~14.5 MB
> big_initrd.cpio ~323.4 MB
>
> mips64-softmmu/qemu-system-mips64 -M malta -m 1GB -nographic -monitor 
> telnet::4440,server,nowait -serial telnet::3000,server -kernel 
> clfskernel-4.7.0 -initrd initrd.cpio
>
> the smaller initrd.cpio (~14.5 MB) boots without any problem and shows 
> the output of an test-program at end of the booting
> the big one with ~323.4 MB seems to hang right before the 
> ramdisk/initrd extraction
>
> both initrds are build by the same script - the bigger one just gets 
> more programs in - the same script is used for building for
> ppc64, alpha and sparc an both initrds are working on these platforms
>
> small tests show that this seem not to be a kernel or gcc bug (same 
> problem with linux 4.5,4.6.4,4,7, gcc 5.2,5.3,6.1)
>
> is my big_inird.cpio too large for the malta platform (or my 
> linux-conf?) or is this maybe an emulation problem with qemu?
According to your kernel message log, the guest machine only
has 256MiB RAM:

 memory: 0000000010000000 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)

P.S.

I think you swapped the two log file names.

Enjoy

Jakob
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