Juan Quintela wrote:
>>>>>>"guillaume" == Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>
> Hi
>
> guillaume> What I tried to explain, is that with a ~ 20 Mbytes rescue
> guillaume> system, we have two choices:
>
> guillaume> - upload it to memory and mount it from here (ramdisk)
> guillaume> - copy it to a disk/partition and mount it from here
>
> What about a third approach, use the cdrom.img to load a cdrom that has
> the rescue filesystem. Notice that I understand your problems, you
> need 20MB of Memory, either in ramdisk, disk or whatever, then,
> why not on cdrom/zip, name a medium.
>
Yes, that it what I was about to suggest. Remember - I have HD install
that means, I already have some media with stage2 on it. This was the
reason for my question - if you need filesystem with writable stage2 -
you have no choice but use ramdisk. But if you can mount stage2
read-only - what prevents you from using CD-ROM/HD/NFS/whatever for it?
The only case when you are forced to create RAM disk is FTP install.
You can then create small ramdisk for scratch pad, and may be even mount
/var on it if it is needed.
> guillaume> In rescue, by definition, we want to not use a disk
> guillaume> partition and write to it.
>
> Completely agree.
>
Me too. My question still is - what exactly do you need to write on it?
>
> guillaume> What's that? In what (exact) situation do you get signal 15
> guillaume> while loading ramdisk?
>
> Inquiring minds also want to know.
>
When it loads RAM disk with stage2. Somewhere near the end I get the
above message and looking in console output I see something like "out of
memory".
