Actually, the kernel is 32 meg uncompressed, but when I compress it with
gzip, it goes down to 11 megs.  Would this affect the size I can boot?
What other options are there if I can't trim it down to 16 meg
uncompressed?  are there any other loaders made for i386 hardware that are
designed for large memory disks?  Thanks

Also, Yes, a kernel without those MEMORY_DISK options does indeed work.

Greg

> In article <20021020074808.GF7451@mewburn.net>
> lukem@netbsd.org wrote:
>
>>   | options         MEMORY_DISK_SERVER=1
>>   | options         MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE=65536
>>   |
>>   | I'm trying to create a 32 meg filesystem as root.  I use makefs
>>   and | mdsetimage to make the image and put the image into the
>>   kernel.
>
>> Does a kernel *without* those options work ?
>
> I doubt i386 bootloader could load kernels larger than 16Mbytes.
>
>> Also, I notice that the our kernels which use these options have:
>> 	options         MEMORY_DISK_SERVER=0
>> where you have
>> 	options         MEMORY_DISK_SERVER=1
>
> This should not effect for booting. MEMORY_DISK_SERVER=0 is only
> used to disable userland support of md(4) to reduce kernel size.
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
> tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp