From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <36D4F2D5.B5472697@wanadoo.fr> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:51:01 +0100 From: Martin Costabel MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mayan Moudgill CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: ramdisks, anyone? References: <9902242039.AA29018@mayan.watson.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]