ramdisks, anyone?

ramdisks, anyone?

[Mayan Moudgill]

I am trying to build a small initrd, with a linuxrc that does something.
Does somebody have such a ramdisk.image available?
Or even some suggestions on what to do?

I started off by trying to make bash my /linuxrc. Bash
required ld.so.1, which required libc.so.2, etc....

This occupied more the 4MB. At that point the /dev/ram on the
machine I was building the ramdisk started giving problems -
If I built a bigger /dev/ram, after umount, dd would only
read the first 4MB.  is there something magical about 4M for ramdisks?

So I'm stuck..............

HELP!!!!!!!

:)
Mayan

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Re: ramdisks, anyone?

[Martin Costabel]

Mayan Moudgill wrote:
> 
> I am trying to build a small initrd, with a linuxrc that does something.
> Does somebody have such a ramdisk.image available?
> Or even some suggestions on what to do?
> 
> I started off by trying to make bash my /linuxrc. Bash
> required ld.so.1, which required libc.so.2, etc....
> 
> This occupied more the 4MB. At that point the /dev/ram on the
> machine I was building the ramdisk started giving problems -
> If I built a bigger /dev/ram, after umount, dd would only
> read the first 4MB.  is there something magical about 4M for ramdisks?

Yes. If you want more than 4M, let's say 8M, you have to boot with a
kernel argument ramdisk_size=8192. If you have kernel sources installed,
you can read about this in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ramdisk.txt.

--
Martin

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Re: ramdisks, anyone?

[Anirudh Joshi]

	I vaugely remember a kernel argument called "ramdisk_size", so (if
you use bootx, but it in the line at bottom) try "ramdisk_size=8192" that
will make the ramdisk 8 megs, or whatever your fancy....


ani


On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Mayan Moudgill wrote:

> 
> 
> I am trying to build a small initrd, with a linuxrc that does something.
> Does somebody have such a ramdisk.image available?
> Or even some suggestions on what to do?
> 
> I started off by trying to make bash my /linuxrc. Bash
> required ld.so.1, which required libc.so.2, etc....
> 
> This occupied more the 4MB. At that point the /dev/ram on the
> machine I was building the ramdisk started giving problems -
> If I built a bigger /dev/ram, after umount, dd would only
> read the first 4MB.  is there something magical about 4M for ramdisks?
> 
> So I'm stuck..............
> 
> HELP!!!!!!!
> 
> :)
> Mayan
> 


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