RE: does ramdisk_size matter ?

["Skahan, Vince" <vince skahan boeing com>]

Still confused.  If I get the syntax wrong, future releases
will break my installation unless ramdisk_size is deprecated
totally for kickstarts so any answer is good enough.

Let me ask it another way.

What is the syntax to put in a grub menu.lst file
to cause a kickstart to happen for RH9 and later ?

For rh80, it appears to be something along the lines of:
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /path/vmlinuz root=/dev/ram devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216
   initrd /path/initrd.img

One example in the archives from 3/24 gave an example that looked
like the following for a PXE boot via grub.

    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /pxestuff/vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
    initrd /pxestuff/initrd.img
    append ksdevice=eth0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 \
		ramdisk_size=32768 network \
		ks=http://10.16.33.105/pub/kickstart/ks.cfg 

Looking at the boot.img file in rh9 seems to say that the same stanza
should work.

So...are you saying that whatever we put in there will work
automagically due to RH switching to ramfs ?

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---------- Vince Skahan boeing com ---------
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Katz [mailto:katzj redhat com]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 5:51 PM
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: RE: does ramdisk_size matter ?


On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 14:47, Skahan, Vince wrote:
> right, so if I specify a really big ramdisk_size,
> I'm in good shape and I won't have to predict
> how RedHat changes the required ramdisk_size
> in future releases (?)

Well, we've switched to using ramfs (as of Red Hat Linux 9) to keep it
from being a problem in the future 

Cheers,

Jeremy



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