[syslinux] ramdisk_size
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Mon Nov 10 13:58:00 PST 2003
Geddes wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I'am using pxelinux to try and boot a 200meg uncompressed (approx 50
> compressed) ramdisk onto a machine with 512meg of ram. It looks as though
> I'am running out of memory (attempt to access beyond end of device error).
> Is there a limit on what we put for ramdisk_size? Or Is there other
> limitations?
>
In general, once you get in the realm where the initrd
compressed+uncompressed > RAM/2 you're starting to see various kind of
weirdness.
The best way to avoid this is to bootstrap: load a small initrd which
gets the rest of the filesystem and puts it into a tmpfs.
-hpa
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