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initrd >4MB?

DISCUSSION Steven Tarr 2 participants 2 messages Jul 27, 2000 – Jul 28, 2000

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How does one make a initrd that is greater than 4MB? A quick look at the configuration autoconf.h has a parameter to specify the ramdisk size, but I can't find where it is used. I look in drivers/block/rd.c and there is a hardcoded variable there of 4096. Looks like there is support for using 2 or more /dev/ram* as a logical ramdisk, but I can't find any documentation on how to do that.

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Quoted 2 lines · Steven Tarr

... I look in drivers/block/rd.c and there is a hardcoded variable there of 4096.

You can either modify this value (which I did for a long time :-), or simply add 'ramdisk=xxxx' to the kernel command line.

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