Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:51:50 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | initrd image size of 3.1.0 kernel | From | "Brad Tilley" <> |
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I built a vanilla stable kernel using the most recent 3.1.0 stable source. I built it like this:
make silentoldconfig make deb-pkg
The kernel boots and runs fine. However, the size (greater than 100 MB) of the initrd image surprised me. Doing the same sort of build for a 3.0.x kenerl produces a much smaller image:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12M Sep 6 11:57 initrd.img-3.0.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107M Oct 26 08:03 initrd.img-3.1.0
I only want to point this out. Perhaps I missed something in the documentation that explains the size difference, or something in my old config or toolset caused it. Here are some versions installed on my system:
gcc (Debian 4.4.5-8) 4.4.5 GNU Make 3.81 GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.20.1-system.20100303 fdformat (util-linux-ng 2.17.2) module-init-tools 3.12 grub-install (GRUB) 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1
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If this larger size is normal (not an error on my part) then /boot sizes will need to grow to accommodate this.
Brad
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