RAMDISK: incomplete write (ramdisk too small?)

ARIBAUD Albert a.aribaud at giat-industries.fr
Wed Dec 10 19:30:52 EST 2003


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org
> [mailto:owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org]De la part
> de hyding
> Envoyé : mercredi 10 décembre 2003 02:51
> À : linuxppc-embed
> Objet : RAMDISK: incomplete write (ramdisk too small?)
>
>
>
> hi,all
>     I made an initrd but failed to boot.The process about making the
> initrd is as follows:
>     dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/ramdisk.image bs=1k count=8192

Looks like you're building a ramdisk bigger than 4megs.
The kernel need a RAMDISK_SIZE=8192k command line argument for your
8meg ramdisk to work, I think.

Albert.


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