On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 03:58:54PM +0200, Kars de Jong wrote: > On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 15:27, Petr Stehlik wrote: > > Also note I had to increase the ramdisk size to 8192 kB to allow woody > > to fit there. > > Obviously, since the default ramdisk size is 4096k and the Debian > installation ramdisk is bigger. The ramdisk_size kernel parameter is your friend. > Anyhow, this came up before: > > On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 15:24, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 10:59:53AM +0200, Kars de Jong wrote: > > > This is caused by a missing boot parameter: ramdisk_size=20000 > > > The default maximum ramdisk size is 4 MB, the d-i ramdisk is quite a bit > > > bigger. > > > Sorry if I didn't document that clearly enough. This is required to > > support 2.2 kernels, although I think I can cut that in half soon. > > Stephen, I guess it still needs better documentation ;-) Indeed, it's actually in the sarge installation manual as of 0801 (ramdisk_size=13000). Yeah (and there was much rejoicing). -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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