On Wed, 06 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> How do I create a ramdisk of more than 4096 bytes to mount as a file system?
> I've been able to do it fine with the default size of 4096 but I haven't found
> a way to make that bigger.
> any tips would be greatly appreciated
> Sam.
I think there's a setting you have to pass to GRUB or LILO at boot time. My
default boot entry has this in /boot/grub/menu.lst
title linux kernel (hd1,5)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb6 vga=0x0f01 ramdisk=8192
For LILO, IIRC, you need to add a line like
append="ramdisk=8192" [or whatever size you want]
to the default boot entry in lilo.conf. You'll then need to run /sbin/lilo
after that. Be sure to read the docs for GRUB and LILO before doing so.
After you reboot, you should be able to make larger ramdisks. I'm not sure if
there is a maximum size imposed by the kernel. If so and if you need a larger
ramdisk than the kernel allows, you'll need to recompile the kernel.
Hope this helps. . .
---Norvell Spearman
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---Philip Marlowe
