On 26 September 2016 at 07:47, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote: > 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). >>> >>> 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
> And they all fail? >From at least 23 onwards they all continue to boot but give the previously mentioned warning in dmesg output. > Also, is this BIOS or EFI? Booting from BIOS, not EFI. > Also: compressed or uncompressed (if it makes a difference?) file reports the following 20 initrd starts with a gzip header 21-23 initrds start with a cpio header 24 and rawhide initrd starts with an xz header Looking at livecd-iso-to-pxeboot it seems that the CD's contents is turned into a gzip'd cpio and then concatenated on the end of the usual initrd... -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/
