On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:08:31PM -0500, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > One more thing: this bloats the initrd quite a bit, particularly with > DHCP, so on arches like alpha and IA-64 it might not fit in 4MB. The > workaround is to expand the maximum initrd size, but that's a kernel > compile-time parameter, which kinda defeats the purpose... :-( Put ramdisk_size=16384 on the kernel command line, and you don't have to recompile. I did this myself to netboot CHAOS (an openMosix compute-node minimalist thing: see http://itsecurity.mq.edu.au/chaos/, and http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7089455) -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@cor , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC
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