Re: The Lilo/initrd.img Problem Has Recurred
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:57:49PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 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...
With BUSYBOX=n the initrd.img file size is reduced to 6683876 but bootup
still fails.
Tom
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