Subject: can't boot kernel with big ramdisk
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/06/2007 16:23:11
Hello

I'm trying to boot a kernel with a big ramdisk over PXE boot (on amd64).
The bootloader loads the kernel through TFTP but it hangs instead of 
launching it. 

A kernel with MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE=22000 will boot, and with 
MEMORY_DISK_ROOT_SIZE=25000 it won"t. gzip'ing the kernel does not
help.

Any clue? Is there something special for loading big kernels? If there
an alternative (eg: loading the ramdisk through tftp as a separate file?)

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@netbsd.org