Yes, Jan. It is a minimal CentOS distribution + Gnome desktop. I’m just pushing 
the limits. Your idea of providing the userland via nfs sounds appealing. I 
will try that out. 

Although, I would have expected this limitation from a 32-bit bootloader.

Thanks 


> On Apr 27, 2018, at 1:29 PM, Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 2018-04-27 18:04, Rajiv Vaidyanath wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> For linux under x86, is there a 3GB size limit to non-root inmate's
>> kernel+initrd ?
>> 
>> I am unable to load the non-root linux kernel when the size is greater
>> than 3GB.
> 
> 3 Gig is... a lot. I wouldn't be surprised if there are limitations not
> only in our loader (never tested) but even in Linux, its boot protocol
> or who knows.
> 
> Why do you need 3 GB? That's a full distro with desktop and all the
> stuff. Can't you let one cell (typically root) provide that via NFS or
> something similar?
> 
> Jan
> 
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