Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:11:22 -0700 (PDT) | From | Chad Page <> | Subject | Re: ramdisk problem |
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On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Lex Spoon wrote:
> Check your startup messages closely; do they say anything about your ramdisks > being limitted to 0 bytes? > > I had a problem in that my /etc/lilo.conf had something like "ramsize = 0" (i > forget the exact variable), as a "sanity check" as they put it. ARG! So > maybe check your /etc/lilo.conf? > *That* might explain it! In the old days, a kernel with a ramdisk that wasn't zero built in would take up whatever memory it was built with... now of course that totally breaks the driver ;)
(Good thing I left that printout in after I made sure my sizing changes worked...)
- Chad, who ought to revise the documentation or something...
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