[syslinux] FW: INITRD > MEMSIZE / 2

[Martijn Bakker]

I think one time is ok, you sent it about 10 times now.

grtz, Tijn

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:18:24PM -0500, Gerry Dubois wrote:
> 
> I?ve got a 512M machine and a 330M ( uncompressed ) initrd image. How can I
> mount the ramdisk? Normal booting seems to want to copy the entire initrd
> image into a Ramdisk, thus requiring 2X the memory. So what happens is the
> kernel boots correctly and I get,
> RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
> RAMDISK: Loading 330000 blocks [ 1 disk ] into ram disk
> And then I never see the light of day after that?
> ?
> Compressing the ramdisk doesn?t help because it?s basically already
> compressed ( a giant 290M tarball used as part of an installation process
> run from /linuxrc). After scouring the net I though I would be able to mount
> the initrd directly using /dev/initrd, but that didn?t seem to work.
> ?
> Can anybody point me in the right direction?
> ?
> - Gerry
> 
> 
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