trinux-talk

[Trinux-talk] initrd memory 587K freed

[William S. <ws...@xs...>]

I replaced the bzImage on the 5sept02.iso
with my own so that I can include extra kernel features.

Now the CDROM will not fully boot which I suspect is
due to the size of my new kernel.

Original kernel = 587K
New kernel = 880K

There appears to be a hint to what the problem
is in the output:

"freeing initrd memory : 587K freed"

Am I missing a procedure here that sets the initrd
memory for the new kernel? All I did it replace the kernel
and burn the new CD. I am guessing that this has something
to do with building initrd with dd=, but I have no idea
what option to adjust _if_ this is what I need to do.

Thank you,
-- 
Bill
Amsterdam, NL

Re: [Trinux-talk] initrd memory 587K freed

[Matthew F. <mf...@ci...>]

That kernel isn't *that* big and I couldn't find anything about
limitations using ISOLINUX.

Did you re-run mkisofs to create a new .iso as in:

ISO="/alt/trinux/trinux.iso"
ISOROOT="/alt/trinux/iso"

mkisofs -R -J -o $ISO -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat
-no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table $ISOROOT

or did you raw-edit the .iso somehow?

Did you modify the initrd?

> I replaced the bzImage on the 5sept02.iso
> with my own so that I can include extra kernel features.
> 
> Now the CDROM will not fully boot which I suspect is
> due to the size of my new kernel.
> 
> Original kernel = 587K
> New kernel = 880K
> 
> There appears to be a hint to what the problem
> is in the output:
> 
> "freeing initrd memory : 587K freed"
> 
> Am I missing a procedure here that sets the initrd
> memory for the new kernel? All I did it replace the kernel
> and burn the new CD. I am guessing that this has something
> to do with building initrd with dd=, but I have no idea
> what option to adjust _if_ this is what I need to do.
> 
> Thank you,
> -- 
> Bill
> Amsterdam, NL
> 
> 
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