Samuel Thibault, le mar. 08 août 2023 23:28:02 +0200, a ecrit: > Samuel Thibault, le mar. 08 août 2023 19:15:50 +0200, a ecrit: > > The issue I'm still seeing now is that I cannot get to install some > > packages, such as libicu72. When I pass it as extra package to > > debootstrap, it does get installed, but when I "dpkg -i" it by hand, > > things halt. > > BTW, to get rumpdisk out of the equation, it would be useful to work on > moving the kernel map below 0xffffffff80000000, so we do not get any > size constraint on it, and thus are able to load initrds of whatever > size, provided that we have the memory.
BTW, using gunzip:device:rd0 and module --nounzip in grub allows to get grub to load the gz version and let ext2fs unzip it into memory, so the memory pressure is less of a concern, and one can create a large sparse image, that'll be all in memory without making the initrd.gz large. Samuel
