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

[Steve Gehlbach]

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 
drivers.  Busybox with most programs enabled along with dialog, mke2fs 
and e2fsck spliced in as addons, is about 720K (uncompressed), and the 
whole thing with a few of our shell scripts is about 40K under the 1.44M 
limit.

Steve G.


Richard Smith wrote:

>On 1/13/06, Steve Gehlbach <steve at nexpath.com> wrote:
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>>If you could provide a roadmap on how to do this, or even better have a
>>chance to do it yourself for 2.4.27+ (2.4.32 would be great), that would
>>_really_ be useful.
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>>2.4 is a smaller kernel than 2.6, and for supporting legacy systems that
>>only boot from floppies, I regularly use it on a single boot floppy,
>>using uclibc and busybox, along with e2fs tools and also dialog, for
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>Is is smaller than a linux tiny kernel?
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>Richard A. Smith
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