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Re: kernel-image packages for alpha in need of testing



On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 02:56:46PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> 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.

I upgraded libc6 and module-init-tools and found a much more reasonable
size kernel, I'm pleased to say 2.4.26 works for me, yay.

The libc6 was the one not stripped, so I wonder if that is related.

 - Craig
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