Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Darrick Hartman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Philip, >> >> You're looking at Astlinux after it's booted. The error you're seeing >> is coming during the runnix boot process prior to it's pivoted into >> astlinux. Any ramdisk would have been created by runnix and not by >> Astlinux. >> >> Seems like there may be a few updates that should be done to runnix... >> >> Darrick >> > > I think some people are confused on what a RAMDISK is... It's not the > same as tmpfs. A ramdisk is used by the kernel to decompress the > initrd (initial ramdisk) for booting. Runnix does not have an initrd > but AstLinux does (to find the root filesystem, etc) and it's not the > same thing as the various tmpfs filesystems that are used. > > This error is probably from a while back when additional e2fsck > capability, etc was added to the AstLinux initrd. We probably need a > bigger ramdisk as a result. This can be changed in the kernel config > (at compile time) or with the ramdisk_size parameter. Try adding > something pretty huge like: > > ramdisk_size=8192 > > to your KCMD line for your runnix config file. > > That should resolve it. We should then update the default kernel > config to use a larger ramdisk. >
Ok, so what is involved in updating it in the kernel config (so we don't need to tweak KCMD)? -Philip ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
