Re: Warning from free_init_pages with large initrd

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Sep 25 2016 - 22:15:11 EST


On 09/24/16 08:32, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?