On September 25, 2016 11:22:04 PM PDT, Sitsofe Wheeler <sits...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 26 September 2016 at 03:14, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: >> On 09/24/16 08:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: >>> >>> While trying to PXE boot a Fedora LiveISO on VMware ESXi the kernel >>> throws the following warning: >>> >> [...] >>> >>> The initrd is big because it holds all the files in the ISO (see >>> https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/HowToPxeAnyLiveCd for how it >was >>> made). The issue was originally filed on >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274966 but was usually >>> against older kernels... >> >> How big is big? > >The one that matches that backtrace is 1385 Mbytes and was made from a >Fedora rawhide ISO. Here are some sizes in megabytes from different >versions of Fedora: >960 20/initrd0.img >1416 21/initrd0.img >1379 22/initrd0.img >1430 23/initrd0.img >1492 24/initrd.img
Also: compressed or uncompressed (if it makes a difference?) -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse brevity and formatting.
