Re: ramdisk problem

Chad Page (page0588@sundance.sjsu.edu)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 17:11:22 -0700 (PDT)


On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Lex Spoon wrote:

> Check your startup messages closely; do they say anything about your ramdisks
> being limitted to 0 bytes?
>
> I had a problem in that my /etc/lilo.conf had something like "ramsize = 0" (i
> forget the exact variable), as a "sanity check" as they put it. ARG! So
> maybe check your /etc/lilo.conf?
>
*That* might explain it! In the old days, a kernel with a
ramdisk that wasn't zero built in would take up whatever memory it was
built with... now of course that totally breaks the driver ;)

(Good thing I left that printout in after I made sure my sizing
changes worked...)

- Chad,
who ought to revise the documentation or something...