Re: The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:10:54AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:34:21 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote:
>
> > With BUSYBOX=n the initrd.img file size is reduced to 6683876 but
> > bootup still fails.
>
> Maybe yaird can help. Install the yaird package and then add
>
> ramdisk=mkinitrd.yaird mkinitramfs
>
> to /etc/kernel-img.conf (try to use yaird, if it fails use
> initramfs-tools) and then run
>
> dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64
>
> (this is the recommended method for recreating the initrd, because it's
> independent of the initrd creator used)
>
> On my system this creates a 1,3M initrd. This should be small enough ;)
Interesting: A check of the Debian package lists shows yaird for Etch
and Sid but not for Lenny. Ron Johnson's suggestion that I roll my own
kernel may be best at present. Until six months ago I always rolled my
own kernel. Then one day I thought that perhaps I was being foolish,
that although a stock kernel would include many drivers I did not need
still Debian is so compact the overhead would be trivial. Tonight when
I have the time I will roll one and check out the difference.
Tom
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