Re: Maximum MINIROOTSIZE?

From: Chris Kuethe <ckuethe(at)ualberta.ca>
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 01:06:29 EST

it's in the archives, from the last time people were monkeying about with install floppy type images. to answer your question, the maximum is 16M. i routinely use a 6M ramdisk. the non-standard entry point is nothing to worry about, just make sure you allocate enough sectors in the kernel.

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config bsd root on rd0a
pseudo-device rd 1
option RAMDISK_HOOKS
option MINIROOTSIZE=12352

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#ll miniroot.fs.empty
-rw-r--r-- 1 ckuethe wsrc 6291456 Aug 23 15:03 miniroot.fs.empty

# expr 12352 "*" 512
6324224

as you can see, there's plenty of room allocated in the kernel for my miniroot.

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