Comments on: No, really: The initrd is too big http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: From 32 to 43 « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-48352 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 22:54:32 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-48352 [...] so any more. Even as far back as a year ago, machines I upgraded from stable to testing couldn’t boot on 32Mb of memory. And the [...]

]]> By: Tale of two Ubuntus « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-45564 Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:21:01 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-45564 [...] console version of Ubuntu 10.04, as I expected, wouldn’t even start. My experiences earlier this year foretold that a machine with a meager 32Mb of memory wouldn’t get past the grub [...]

]]> By: Good news or bad news? Still no X « Motho ke motho ka botho http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41912 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:28:15 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41912 [...] account for why Puppy wouldn’t boot at 166Mhz, and I’m fairly sure it wasn’t the size of the initrd this time. But after a blinking cursor that simply pulsed at me for about five minutes, I decided [...]

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41898 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:45:34 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41898 I don’t quite understand what you mean here. :|

]]> By: peekaboo http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41892 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:25:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41892 If you don’t have gigabytes worth of memory you either fail at putting together hardware or fail at earning money.

Either way it’s just fail at a level that doesn’t even justify me writing this.

Or if you’re living in a third world country I can forgive you, but that’s about it.

]]> By: mirradric http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41889 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:10:43 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41889 I remember using an alternative initrd tool called yaird which scans your hardware and includes only the modules required for your boot up, resulting in a much smaller initrd. Of course this does not solve the problem of the installer. http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/yaird

]]> By: Links 4/2/2010: Scientific Linux Reviewed, Google Tablets | Boycott Novell http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41885 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:06:44 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41885 [...] No, really: The initrd is too big Now the size of a stock Linux kernel and the size of the initrd in a vanilla installation of Ubuntu 9.10 are not necessarily related, but I could swear this was never a problem before now. I am more-or-less certain that I have installed minimal Ubuntu systems on computers with only 32Mb of memory — some within the past couple of years — and they started up fine. And Debian runs without complaint on the machine, although I haven’t needed to check the size of the initrd in Debian, so it might be different. (It appears to be less than 8Mb for initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-486.) [...]

]]> By: Morten http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41873 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:47:13 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41873 I just had a look and mine (using Linux Mint 8 => Ubuntu 9.10)
are about 8 MB – and when uncompressed 23 MB
It seem something strange is going on in your machine.

]]> By: steve http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41872 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:00:04 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41872 Indeed. Compiling your own kernel having the filesystem type and appropriate hdd hardware drivers included rather than as modules negates the need for an initrd altogether, as well as speeding up boot times. I’m sure you know this though ;)

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41871 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:44:28 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/no-really-the-initrd-is-too-big/#comment-41871 I was hoping someone would check theirs and find a different number. I double- and triple-checked mine, but 40Mb still sounds unnaturally huge. I halfway suspect some sort of error in the installation. …

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