[LinuxBIOS] [Fastboot] Re: [Kboot-general] Re: small 64bit initrd

[Steve Gehlbach]

Well, linux-tiny does do better, but so far it seems to have too many 
bugs in 2.6.14 for serious work.  Many config setting I tried give 
compile errors, which seem to be related to unenforced dependencies, and 
even when I can get it to compile I have never had it actually work, 
erroring out in the boot process with "bad gzip magic number".  But I 
have gotten unpatched 2.6.14 to work, with kexec, and successfully 
jumped into knoppix from a single floppy boot with all the tools I 
need.  Thanks for the help, right now the -Os compile switch gets me 
there, and I will keep monitoring linux-tiny for additional progress.

Steve G.


Richard Smith wrote:

>On 1/13/06, Steve Gehlbach <steve at nexpath.com> wrote:
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>>Not sure, I am not familiar with that.  But 2.4.32 comes in at around
>>948K with ext2/3, isofs, dosfs, usb/ms, and about a dozen network card
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>Linux-tiny may be able to  beat that.  The number in the orginal paper
>was a TCP/IP, ext2, PCI and 1 network card in 363k.
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>Give it a whirl and report back your results.
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>http://www.selenic.com/linux-tiny/
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>Richard A. Smith
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