Hi, On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 13:58 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > FWIW, adding "-9" to the gzip in mkinitramfs gives a > 0.5% saving, which may help with some marginal cases. > > OTOH using bzip2 instead of gzip saves 10.5% but I have > no idea how much work it would take to support bzip'd > initrd's. > > --Mike Bird > >
Ultimately the issue is that initramfs-tools now uses MODULES="most" instead of MODULES="dep". In the pending upload, liloconfig will advise changing the config file for initramfs-tools to restore the old behaviour to create an initrd which will fit in the 8MiB boundary. I suspect the reason why nobody considered this to be a problem is because Grub is already running in 32bit mode by the time the kernel is loaded and booted. But I could be wrong. After all, I don't speak for the initramfs-tools developers. William
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