[syslinux] ramdisk_size

[Geddes]

Thanks for your help (Thomas & Peter).... my ramdisk is loading fine now.

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> 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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