Re: INITRAMFS: junk in compressed archive

[Andreas Jellinghaus]

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:51:07 +0000, Bernhard Schauer wrote:

> 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...

compressed size plus uncompressed size have be less than the total
ram available.

maybe a few checks a remissing? I get a kernel panic.
it would be nice if the kernel dropped the initrd, and
then did the usual no root fs -> kernel panic code.

Andreas

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