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* initrd >4MB?
@ 2000-07-27 18:50 Steven Tarr
  2000-07-28 18:51 ` Dan Malek
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Steven Tarr @ 2000-07-27 18:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LINUXPPC, support


How does one make a initrd that is greater than 4MB?
A quick look at the configuration autoconf.h has a parameter
to specify the ramdisk size, but I can't find where it is
used. I look in drivers/block/rd.c  and there is a hardcoded
variable there of 4096.  Looks like there is support for
using 2 or more /dev/ram* as a logical ramdisk, but I
can't find any documentation on how to do that.

Thanks --
tarr

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* Re: initrd >4MB?
  2000-07-27 18:50 initrd >4MB? Steven Tarr
@ 2000-07-28 18:51 ` Dan Malek
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Malek @ 2000-07-28 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steven Tarr; +Cc: LINUXPPC, support


Steven Tarr wrote:

> ... I look in drivers/block/rd.c  and there is a hardcoded
> variable there of 4096.

You can either modify this value (which I did for a long time :-),
or simply add 'ramdisk=xxxx' to the kernel command line.


	-- Dan

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