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Re: The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred



On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:08:24 -0400 Thomas H. George wrote:

> Last month when lilo could not boot a stock 2.6.26-1-amd64 debian
> system it was pointed out to me that the initrd.img was too big and
> that the solution was to edit /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and
> change MODULES=most to MODULES=dep.  This indeed reduced the size of
> the initrd.img from about 9000000 to 5008590 and all was well until
> the most recent update of update-initramfs.  Now even with MODULES=dep
> update-initramfs generates a 7787042 initrd.img and again lilo cannot
> boot the system.

Try with

BUSYBOX=no

Something indeed has happened, but I don't think it's initramfs-tools.
My initrd for 2.6.25 is 1,5M and the one for 2.6.26 is 6,2M...

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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