[coreboot] Out of heap space

joe at smittys.pointclark.net joe at smittys.pointclark.net
Thu Mar 27 19:54:21 CET 2008


Quoting Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com>:

> On 27/03/08 01:00 -0400, joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I remember a while back there was an issue with filo booting usb
>> drives. Now that I got my USB working, when I try to boot I get this:
>>
>> Booting 'uda:/isolinux/vmlinuz console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8
>> initrd=uda:/isolinux/initrd.img text'
>> LinuxLabs USB bootloader
>> Out of heap space
>>
>> Was there ever a resolution to this??
>
> Who thinks you are out of heap space? FILO? If so, you can increase
> the amount of heap space by hacking in the ld script.  Its 16K by
> default.
>
>
> Try increasing HEAP_SIZE in i386/ldscript
>
What should I increase it too? The DVD drive has a 8MB cache, does  
that matter? If this is a common problem shouldn't we make it a global  
setting for the config file?



Thanks - Joe




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