[coyotos-dev] For your amusement

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 20:32 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 11:34 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 14:27 +0200, Jeroen Visser wrote:
> > 
> > > #qemu -m 5 -fda grubdisk
> > > ...
> > > cache_preload ....
> > > /mkimage.out: loaded  NPage=18 nCapPage=0 nGPT=6 nEndpoint=5 nProc=2
> > > Have processed 488 pages. Now adding 19 more (tot 507), but estimate
> > > only allowed for 505
> > 
> > That should be enough for us to track it down.
> 
> It seems that I spoke much too quickly, because I just tried running
> qemu -m 5 on an image here and I did not get this result.
> 
> Jeroen: which mkimage.out were you running?

Oh. I now think that I know what happened. I re-ordered some things in
init.c, and the code is now mis-accounting for the pages that are
occupied by the initial system image.

I am going to re-work that code to be less sensitive to order of
operation, but I won't finish that tonight.


shap