Re: kernel 2.6.27 is a disaster

On 2008-10-30, J.O. Aho <user@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Beej Jorgensen wrote:
Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k) <toylet.toylet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I usually removed most SCSI and network card drivers. If you could
reduce the kernel size to about 1 Mbytes, then you don't need a initrd
image.

I'm ashamed to admit that I don't know that much about initrd. I don't
use it (I don't think--no mention of it in lilo.conf--I just build the
few drivers necessary to boot into the kernel), and my kernel is well
over 1 MB compressed.

What's the size limit about?

In the old days there was a 2M limitation on the size of the kernel.

In the old days it had to fit in low ram (between 0x3c00(iirc) and 0xA0000)

Bye.
Jasen
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