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