Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sun Mar 27 2005 - 03:32:25 EST


>> Is there any size-limit on initramfs image? I found out that after
>> reducing the image size it is loaded & /init executed as expected...
>
>Kernel + compressed initramfs + uncompressed initramfs must fit in memory at
>the same time.

This sounds like kernel + squashfs-as-"oldstyle"-initrd is better. At least if
you can live with a read-only fs on startup.



Jan Engelhardt
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