Hello, On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 10:29:01PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > When I tried to boot > RAMDISK: image too big! > Freeing initrd memory 14728k freed > VFS: Cannot open root drive hda1 > > at that point it panics because it cannot mount the drive. > > Any idea why that initrd is 5 times as big as my other initrd? I ran into this when debugging #241185 (which seems closly related to this problem as well), Herbert wrote to me: Can you please find out why it is so big and if appropriate file a new bug report against initrd-tools? Now in the mean time please boot with ramdisk_size=16384 so we can continue with the testing. And no, I did not yet find out why it is so big. Greetings Helge -- Helge Kreutzmann, Dipl.-Phys. Helge.Kreutzmann@itp.uni-hannover.de gpg signed mail preferred gpg-key: finger kreutzm@zibal.itp.uni-hannover.de 64bit GNU powered http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~kreutzm Help keep free software "libre": http://www.freepatents.org/
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