Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Mar 26 2005 - 18:31:39 EST


Followup to: <1111762170.7238.3.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Bernhard Schauer <linux-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> other question:
>
> Is there any size-limit on initramfs image? I found out that after
> reducing the image size it is loaded & /init executed as expected...
>

Kernel + compressed initramfs + uncompressed initramfs must fit in memory at
the same time.

-hpa
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