Re: Large ramdisk crashes system

2001-06-08 Thread Paul Buder
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Paul Buder wrote: > > > I am trying to create a system which boots off of a cd and has no hard > > disks. So it needs ramdisks. But I haven't had much luck creating > > large ones. [ explanation of large ram disks crashing the

Re: Large ramdisk crashes system

2001-06-08 Thread Paul Buder
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, David Woodhouse wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > the kernel is 2.4.5 with 'Simple RAM-based file system support' turned on. > > > I issued the following commands. > > > mkfs /dev/ram0 40 > > mount /dev/ram0 /mnt > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/junk bs=1024 count=50

Re: Large ramdisk crashes system

2001-06-07 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > the kernel is 2.4.5 with 'Simple RAM-based file system support' turned on. > I issued the following commands. > mkfs /dev/ram0 40 > mount /dev/ram0 /mnt > dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/junk bs=1024 count=50 Why turn on ramfs if you're not going to use it? mount

Re: Large ramdisk crashes system

2001-06-07 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Paul Buder wrote: > I am trying to create a system which boots off of a cd and has no hard > disks. So it needs ramdisks. But I haven't had much luck creating > large ones. > > I tried on two different boxes. In both cases the kernel is 2.4.5 with > 'Simple RAM-based fil

Large ramdisk crashes system

2001-06-07 Thread Paul Buder
I am trying to create a system which boots off of a cd and has no hard disks. So it needs ramdisks. But I haven't had much luck creating large ones. I tried on two different boxes. In both cases the kernel is 2.4.5 with 'Simple RAM-based file system support' turned on. One box is a dual Penti