Seems that Xen actually checks for some zones to be 'reserved' and complains if they are not. This also matches what the bios uses at boot. Signed-off-by: Sylvain Munaut <s.munaut at whatever-company.com> --- kexec/arch/i386/kexec-multiboot-x86.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-multiboot-x86.c b/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-multiboot-x86.c index 4de237c..69027e2 100644 --- a/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-multiboot-x86.c +++ b/kexec/arch/i386/kexec-multiboot-x86.c @@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ int multiboot_x86_load(int argc, char **argv, const char *buf, off_t len, && (range[i].end > mem_upper + 0x100000)) mem_upper = range[i].end - 0x100000; } else { - mmap[i].Type = 0xbad; /* Not RAM */ + mmap[i].Type = 2; /* Not RAM (reserved) */ } } -- 2.1.4