Re: Size of kernels

[Hannah Schroeter <hannah_(_at_)_schlund_(_dot_)_de>]

Hello!

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:50:43PM +0100, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote:
>Hi,

>RAM is getting cheaper and the devices I'm using right now have at least
>256 MB of ram. The ramdisk-kernels have many advantages for the systems
>I build the limited ramdisk-size is making it hard to get things done.
>When using Flashboot and the ramdisk kernels you have a limit of
>currently 14 MB if I have understand Damien's text from the flashboot
>readme-file. Is this limit static or it there something that can be changed.

Perhaps you could have a relatively small ramdisk as root filesystem,
and later mount a MFS and populate it from somewhere, e.g. a readonly fs
from flash (mount_mfs ... -P) or by restore(8)ing a (optionally
gzipped/bzip2'ed) dump.

>Rickard.

Kind regards,

Hannah.