On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:40:53PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Gr?gory Kar?kinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I understand the reason of this error (only 8 megs of ram on this > > computer, but is is possible to boot a 2.4 kernel with 8 megs ? > > (Making a smaller ramdisk ? Been searching on google, found out it's 4 > > megs by defaut... That's a lot). > > Yes, but you'll need to setup a custom initrd image. Please refer to > mkinitrd.conf(5) for details.
Do you really need to boot through initrd? A customized 2.4 kernel that does not depend on initrd, should have no problems at all with 8 Mb, and if you will go through and customize, then why not to do it as simple as possible? I might have missunderstood the uses of initrd, but I thought it was most useful for general setups where hardware is unknown and other media is not (easily) accessible, e.g new installations or booting over the network.
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