how to extend the initrd to a customed size ?

[Frank Smith]

If you strip libc.so.6 it gets much smaller; my specific version went from
4115403 to 1032312 bytes.

-Frank.


zhangbingchen wrote:
>
> Hello!
>   I have a board of Custom 860 with 16M RAM memory,which is running the specific linux kernel
>   mpc8xx-2.1.3 obtained from bossek.now,I desire to enlarge the size of initrd from 4M to 6M to
>  enable the initrd to contain the gigantic libc.so.6 with the size of morethan 4M;to do so,i have modified
>  the line rd_size=6144 in .../drivers/block/rd.c file and the ramdisk.image has also been modified correspondly by now.
>  But,to my puzzled,the console just displays the panic message:No init found and then reboots while running.
>   I am sure there is no wrong with my ramdisk.image since it can be mountted correctly with
>  6M size.
>  That is all and I 'd be very thankful with your help or suggestion.
>
>    regards
>    john , zhang
>

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