Subject: Re: root memory disk problem
To: None <lukem@netbsd.org>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/20/2002 16:55:15
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.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp