Re: [BUG] initrd >24MB corruption
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:23:16 +0100
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 08:05:14AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 26 Aug 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 ... then stuck!
> > Force a 1K block size when you make the fs
>
> That was the default for mke2fs.
>
> Tried compress instead of gzip. Same problem. I guess the compressed file
> is too big for the kernel. The 8MB compressed (from 24MB) didn't work. 6MB
> compressed from 18MB worked. The 24MB filesystem has just one extra junk
> file in /tmp to fill up the filesystem to 90% and this caused the system
> to hang.
>
> I'm thinking it could be the ungzip function in the kernel that's causing
> the problem.
Out of curiosity, how much RAM do you have available?
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