Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:04:28 -0400 | From | "David L. Parsley" <> | Subject | Re: Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine |
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Alexandr Andreev wrote: > > David L. Parsley wrote: > > >Mathias Killian wrote a patch to allow cramfs initrd's, see: > >http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-01/1064.html > > > Thank you. I applied this patch, and recompiled my kernel. > All works fine, if the size of root filesystem less than 4096Kb. But > when i create > an image of root filesystem which size is bigger than 4096Mb, the kernel > said: > ... > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 4096 blocksize ^^^^^ You also need to give the kernel 'ramdisk_size=XXXX'. I've used larger cramfs initrd's with no problem, but the kernel has to make larger ramdisks. By editing rd.c, you can make this stuff default.
regards, David -- David L. Parsley Network Administrator, Roanoke College "If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants." --Isaac Newton - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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