Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm3 initrd strangeness

[Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de>]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:52:45PM +0000, Tim Kelsey wrote:
> I am experiencing problems with 2.6.0-test9-mm3 and initrd ramdisks
> I have support for ramdisks and initrd compiled directly into the kernel and have an initrd image gzipped and placed in /boot called initrd-crypt.gz
> 
> When booting off a 2.4.22 kernel the image is loaded and linuxrc is executed perfectly but with a 2.6.0-test9-mm3 kernel i get the following msg at boot time
> 
> 	RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> 	RAMDISK: incomplete Write (-1 != 32768) 4194304
> 
> Any comments, advice, opinions greatly appreciated also if someone could explain what those numbers actually mean i would be very grateful 

Seems like your ramdisk is full, the default size is 4096k.
Change the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE parameter or boot with
ramdisk_size=<value>.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@suse.de
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