Messages in this thread | | | From | "John Z. Bohach" <> | Subject | Re: large initramfs causes h/w reset after decompressing | Date | Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:32:59 -0700 |
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On Thursday 14 July 2011 02:14:08 pm H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 07/14/2011 09:06 AM, John Z. Bohach wrote: > > I have a large initramfs cpio file, about 890 MB, which expands to > > 2.7 GB, and am running on linux-2.6.36.1, in 64-bit mode with 8 GB > > of physical RAM. > > > > Upon loading the initramfs, I see the message "Decompressing..." > > for a few seconds, and then comes a reset. > > > > This question has come up before...is there some sort of max size. > > that I am exceeding? With 8 GB of physical memory and 64-bit arch. > > (AMD-II), certainly seems that there should be enough memory, no? > > > > Thanks... > > What bootloader are you using? There are some bootloaders which > don't allocate the initramfs in a very good spot. > > -hpa
I've actually gotten the improbable to work, and am PXE booting via syslinux and dhcp.
It all works fine with an initramfs of ~20 MB, but that's quite a diff. from 2.7 GB of expanded /root (890 MB cpio.tar.gz file).
But excuse my ignorance, I don't see the relevance of your question...the initramfs is part of the kernel itself...I simply load the kernel bzImage (all 890 MB) and that's where its all at...this is _not_ an initrd.
--john
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