From: Frank Smith <smith@amirix.com>
To: zhangbingchen <shenhuizhang@263.net>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: how to extend the initrd to a customed size ?
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 07:06:09 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00Apr29.070611adt.7306@dragon.appliedmicro.ns.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 001801bfb31a$8b816d60$54c809c0@zbc
If you strip libc.so.6 it gets much smaller; my specific version went from
4115403 to 1032312 bytes.
-Frank.
zhangbingchen wrote:
>
> Hello!
> I have a board of Custom 860 with 16M RAM memory,which is running the specific linux kernel
> mpc8xx-2.1.3 obtained from bossek.now,I desire to enlarge the size of initrd from 4M to 6M to
> enable the initrd to contain the gigantic libc.so.6 with the size of morethan 4M;to do so,i have modified
> the line rd_size=6144 in .../drivers/block/rd.c file and the ramdisk.image has also been modified correspondly by now.
> But,to my puzzled,the console just displays the panic message:No init found and then reboots while running.
> I am sure there is no wrong with my ramdisk.image since it can be mountted correctly with
> 6M size.
> That is all and I 'd be very thankful with your help or suggestion.
>
> regards
> john , zhang
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-01 3:08 how to extend the initrd to a customed size ? zhangbingchen
2000-04-29 10:06 ` Frank Smith [this message]
2000-05-01 3:00 ` Graham Stoney
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