From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <00Apr29.070611adt.7306@dragon.appliedmicro.ns.ca> From: Frank Smith MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zhangbingchen CC: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: how to extend the initrd to a customed size ? References: <001801bfb31a$8b816d60$54c809c0@zbc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 07:06:09 -0300 Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/