> On Oct 7, 2019, at 6:32 PM, Gary B. Genett <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > A specific case where this is necessary would be if the initramfs were > larger than half of the memory, such as a 2.5GB filesystem with 4GB of > memory. Without this option, this causes a kernel panic. With this > option, the user may specify something like 75%, which would allow the > filesystem into memory, while still leaving enough resources to run > a functioning system. Why would anyone need such a large an initramfs?