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From: "David L. Parsley" <parsley@linuxjedi.org>
To: Alexandr Andreev <andreev@niisi.msk.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:04:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B2F5BEC.A94F33A3@linuxjedi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B2A0F05.6050902@niisi.msk.ru> <3B2A538A.BA62148A@linuxjedi.org> <3B2F5282.30602@niisi.msk.ru>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-19 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-15 13:35 Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine Alexandr Andreev
     [not found] ` <14506.992621390@redhat.com>
2001-06-15 17:16   ` Alexandr Andreev
2001-06-15 18:27 ` David L. Parsley
2001-06-19 13:24   ` Alexandr Andreev
2001-06-19 14:04     ` David L. Parsley [this message]
2001-06-19 15:08       ` how to display proxy arp addresses using "ip neigh" from iproute2 Christopher Friesen
2001-06-21  5:16         ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-06-19 15:44       ` Using cramfs as root filesystem on diskless machine Alexandr Andreev
2001-06-19 16:36         ` Stephane Casset
2001-06-17 16:28 ` Pavel Machek
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106151824240.28914-100000@imladris.demon.co.uk>
2001-06-15 17:35 ` Alexandr Andreev

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