[ivtv-users] NVidia and CX18

[Andy Walls]

On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 06:52 -0800, Ben Vlug wrote:
> Hey Andy,
>  
> I added the value vmalloc=256M and I added a 1600 into the system.
> Almost immediately on boot I got the following errors. I had to do an
> "a" to edit and remove the new addition for the system to boot. 
>  
> initrd extends beyond end of memory

Ugh.  I now recall I ran across this "initrd" error message on a machine
with very low memory.


Well, I know you need more vmalloc space than the 112 MB that you are
at. (You will need more than 143 MB of vmalloc space as a lower bound
based on what you submitted previously).  256 MB kills the boot process.
You said 192M didn't work.  That leaves 224 MB as the next trial in a
binary search.

But what did /var/log/messages show when things didn't work with 192 MB?

What did /proc/meminfo and /proc/iomem show with 192MB set and the
HVR-1600 in the system? 

What does /proc/interrupts show for the interrupt the HVR-1600 is using?

Regards,
Andy

> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
> 
> Thanks,
>  
> Ben
>