Re: [gentoo-dev] FEATURES to cut the excess in portage

[Donnie Berkholz]

John Jawed wrote:
> At larger sizes the loading the initrd would actually cause a kernel
> panic on pivoting root...whether this was a result of a kernel config,
> a set maximum size limit, or something else I'm not exactly sure of.

Yes, there's a hardcoded limit in the kernel config that you can change.
With the sizes you're mentioning, however, I'd be prone to just using a
NFS root so files go across the network on-demand instead of shipping
whole initrd's all over the place unconditionally.

A more general discussion of netbooting ideas and implementations would
fit right in on the gentoo-cluster list, which you should definitely
sign up for if you aren't there yet. I'd like to hear more details on
your setup(s).

Thanks,
Donnie