On Wednesday 07 January 2004 15:20, Matt Bernstein wrote: > On Jan 6 David Baron wrote: > >Thank for you reply. I am "chicken" to start tampering with the kernel. > > When a 2.6* is reasonably stable, maybe I'll tackle that :-) > > > >For now, I want a usable initrd. > > For 2.4, you only need jbd then ext3. For 2.6 (which is "reasonably" > stable, and ext3 scales much better :), you need mbcache then jbd then > ext3. You don't need anything else, unless the block device your "/" lives > on is also build as modules. > > Why not take the large initrd image and just "remove stuff"(tm) till lilo > will take it? Or just try grub.. By setting moduls=non and specifying jbd and ext3 in the root parameter of the mkinitrd.conf, I got the size down to 972k. I think it should be 1/3 of that. This is still too big to be on the image menu and using it as a lilo initrd still panics! The error for the panic is a blocksize of 00000 What specifically must be in the mkinitrd.conf file to do this correctly? None of the docs I have seen mention this at all !! _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
