Messages in this thread | | | From | Sitsofe Wheeler <> | Date | Mon, 26 Sep 2016 07:22:04 +0100 | Subject | Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd |
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On 26 September 2016 at 03:14, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > On 09/24/16 08:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: >> >> While trying to PXE boot a Fedora LiveISO on VMware ESXi the kernel >> throws the following warning: >> > [...] >> >> The initrd is big because it holds all the files in the ISO (see >> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd for how it was >> made). The issue was originally filed on >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274966 but was usually >> against older kernels... > > How big is big?
The one that matches that backtrace is 1385 Mbytes and was made from a Fedora rawhide ISO. Here are some sizes in megabytes from different versions of Fedora: 960 20/initrd0.img 1416 21/initrd0.img 1379 22/initrd0.img 1430 23/initrd0.img 1492 24/initrd.img
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