Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261154AbVCZQAy (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:00:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261157AbVCZQAx (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:00:53 -0500 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([193.197.184.2]:43997 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261154AbVCZQAu (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:00:50 -0500 From: Andreas Jellinghaus Subject: Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:06:21 +0100 User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: References: <1111679972.5628.10.camel@FC3-bernhard-1.acousta.local> <1111762170.7238.3.camel@FC3-bernhard-1.acousta.local> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 21 On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:51:07 +0000, Bernhard Schauer wrote: > other question: > > Is there any size-limit on initramfs image? I found out that after > reducing the image size it is loaded & /init executed as expected... compressed size plus uncompressed size have be less than the total ram available. maybe a few checks a remissing? I get a kernel panic. it would be nice if the kernel dropped the initrd, and then did the usual no root fs -> kernel panic code. Andreas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/