[syslinux] Memdisk image size limitation?
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Nov 11 08:43:46 PST 2003
Clay_Cooper at dell.com wrote:
> All,
> Quick question. What would be a good rule of thumb for the size limitations
> of a bootable image for MEMDISK. Not involving network dowload of the
> image, but relation of the image size to total RAM size. Let's say I had
> 1GB of RAM, is there a size my image should be limited to? Does MEMDISK
> have a maximum image size? Thanks.
>
The limit is 4 GB. It depends mostly on what OS you're using... I have
used an image which pushed a 256 MB machine into having less than 16 MB
left, and found a bug that way...
-hpa
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