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On Thursday 09 April 2009 08:45:30 Duncan wrote: |
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> flockmock@×××.at posted 200904090657.08422.flockmock@×××.at, excerpted |
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> below, on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:57:08 +0200: |
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> > i have a quite big initramfs, kernel size is approx. 5,7 MB. Adding new |
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> > things to my initramfs does not work, because grub fails to load kernels |
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> > with >6MB. so, does anybody know the exact limit of the kernel file |
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> > size, that grub is able to load? is it platform-specific? |
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> What grub version are you running? Stable or ~arch? |
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> So try either grub or grub-static-0.97-r9. |
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thanks for the answer, i'm already running grub-0.97-r9. |
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perhaps it is time to switch back to good old lilo, or to play with grub2 ;) |
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