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



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