Woohoo! and the answer is..."syst_size=32M"
sweet...it booted fine (with a 32M root partition). All I had to do was copy libnsl.so.1 to /lib and perl was happy. I am almost ready to rejoice... Thanks Manfred (and guitarlynn who almost had it right...the default is specified in bytes, so syst_size=32 didn't work as expected) Time to play around a bit :) -----Original Message----- From: Manfred Schuler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:17 PM To: Adrian Stovall Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] ramdisk_size question... try syst_size=32M I think you created a 32k ramdisk Manfred Adrian Stovall schrieb: > > Okay...got one step further. I found a post from Jaques that mentions > syst_size > > <snip> > 1/ TMPFS is used instead of /dev/ram > /dev/ram0 is only used to boot initrd.lrp then the main filesystem is > pivot_rooted to tmpfs and /dev/ram0 released. > Three parameters can be introduced in the command line (but defaults > should be OK in most cases): > syst_size= max size of LRP filesystem (default SYSTSIZE=6M) > log_size= max size of /var/log (default LOGSIZE=2M) > tmp_size= max size of /tmp (default remaining available memory) > </snip> > > (which I was ignorant of before). I added "syst_size=32768" to syslinux.xfg > and got > > LINUXRC: LEAF Project - Initrd - Bering-Beta4 > Mounting a 32768 TMPFS filesystem... > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > Bus Error > LINUXRC: Could not mount the boot device. Can't install packages. > kernel panic: attempted to kill init! > > I'm sure this has something to do with the way my syslinux.cfg is formatted, > but I sure don't know what to change. > > syslinux.cfg reads: > > display syslinux.dpy > timeout 0 > default linux initrd=initrd.lrp init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=32768 > syst_size=32768 root=/dev/ram0 boot=/dev/hda1,msdos PKGPATH=/dev/hda1 > LRP=root,etc,local,shorwall,perl5 > > I have tried values of 32768, 16384, and 8192 with radisk_size, and values > of 32768 and 16384 with syst_size, but I get the same error each time. Do I > have to alter something else in syslinux.cfg (or some other file) to make > this work? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:01 AM > To: Adrian Stovall > Cc: 'LEAF (E-mail)' > Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] ramdisk_size question... > > This is sort of off LEAF , but I have had to compile my 2.4.7 > with 32mb ramsize. I really don't know if this is an issue in 2.2 > > NOW, major contradiction! In /usr/src/doc the ramdisk writeup > specifically says the ramdisk is dynamic and will grow and shrink > to accommodate. This is a major contradiction of several HOWTOs > and I don't know how to find the truth about how ram disk size works. > > Anyone out there knowledgeable ? > > Adrian Stovall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 02/27/2002 05:49:48 PM > > To: "'LEAF (E-mail)'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: (bcc: Phillip Watts/austin/Nlynx) > > Subject: [Leaf-user] ramdisk_size question... > > Hi again all...I have a new question...I made sure (repeatedly) that I had > entered "ramdisk_size=32768" in my syslinux.cfg file, however, df -k reports > that /dev/root has 6144 blocks allocated (which are 100% used). How do I > convince my router that it's supposed to use what I told it to? > > I have 256 Meg installed in this machine, so I'm fairly sure that's a valid > number to use for ramdisk_size...am I missing something? > > I've been searching the 'net for info, and will continue to do so, but > haven't found anything yet. > > TIA > > Adrian > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user -- Manfred Schuler E_Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user