Re: Grub freezes when it touches large initrd

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Le 03/06/2021 à 07:42, Andrei Borzenkov a écrit :
> On 02.06.2021 18:02, Vuk.Gojnic@telekom.de wrote:
> > I am trying to boot the system with an initrd that is 406MB (gzip compressed) 
> > in size on x86_64 system with 256G RAM via UEFI. I use bootloader binaries 
> > (GRUBX64.efi and BOOTX64.efi) from Ubuntu Bionic. Kernel is also from the same 
> > distro.
> >
> > When I get to Grub prompt I can normally load the kernel with:
> > Grub>linuxefi /vmlinuz
> >
> > Howewer when I try to load initrd the Grub crashes and what follows is "red screen 
> > of death" with:
> > X64 Exception Type 0x03 - Breakpoint Exception
> > ...
> > CALL ImageBase        ImageName+Offset
> > 00h  0000000000000000 No Image Information
> >
> > CALL ImageBase        ImageName+Offset
> > ...
> >
> > The same happens even if I just try to do "ls -la" on the directory that 
> > contains that initrd.
>
> In this case it is unlikely related to size. Rather there is something
> with this specific file inode that makes grub crash.

How then do you explain this :

> > I have tried with few initrd images ranging between 300MB and 400MB, but result 
> > was the same
> > On the other hand everything works well when I boot with an initrd that is 
> > around 70MB big.