Use the ramdisk_size=131072 kernel boot option to change the
default max size of a ram disk to 128MB (131072KB).
Look in /usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt for details or unpack the
kernel source and look in Documentation/ramdisk.txt.
Assuming you use lilo add the line
append="ramdisk_size=131072"
to /etc/lilo.conf under the image= area and rerun lilo.
According to the docs the default max size without this option
is supposed to be 4MB, but I can make larger ramdisks without
problems (I've only tried up to 12 MB). The code in rd.c
specifies a 4MB max too. (Just pointing out that there is quite
a bit about RAM disks that I obviously don't understand.)
Good luck,
Tony Richardson
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 4:51 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
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> Subject: RE: how to make ramdisk bigger than 8MB?
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>
> At 01:54 PM 11/03/1999 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Woohoo! Thanks a million Tony. Before I started asking
> this question, I
> >had read over that ramdisk.txt file a couple of times, but
> it just seemed
> >antiquated and specific to boot floppy creation.
> >
> >anyway, I now am the proud owner of a 128MB ramdisk, and boy
> is it FAST!!!!
> >
>
> Er...what was the answer? I didn't see it posted to the list.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
