The bootx_init.c trampoline didn't properly add the ramdisk to the "reserve map" (list of reserved areas of memory), thus causing all sorts of failures when using BootX with an initrd. Also fixes a possible problem if the ramdisk is located before the device-tree passed by BootX. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Index: linux-2.6.16.13-4/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/bootx_init.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16.13-4.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/bootx_init.c +++ linux-2.6.16.13-4/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/bootx_init.c @@ -379,8 +379,15 @@ static unsigned long __init bootx_flatte DBG("End of boot params: %x\n", mem_end); rsvmap[0] = mem_start; rsvmap[1] = mem_end; - rsvmap[2] = 0; - rsvmap[3] = 0; + if (bootx_info->ramDisk) { + rsvmap[2] = ((unsigned long)bootx_info) + bootx_info->ramDisk; + rsvmap[3] = rsvmap[2] + bootx_info->ramDiskSize; + rsvmap[4] = 0; + rsvmap[5] = 0; + } else { + rsvmap[2] = 0; + rsvmap[3] = 0; + } return (unsigned long)hdr; } @@ -502,12 +509,12 @@ void __init bootx_init(unsigned long r3, */ if (bi->version < 5) { space = bi->deviceTreeOffset + bi->deviceTreeSize; - if (bi->ramDisk) + if (bi->ramDisk >= space) space = bi->ramDisk + bi->ramDiskSize; } else space = bi->totalParamsSize; - bootx_printf("Total space used by parameters & ramdisk: %x \n", space); + bootx_printf("Total space used by parameters & ramdisk: 0x%x \n", space); /* New BootX will have flushed all TLBs and enters kernel with * MMU switched OFF, so this should not be useful anymore.