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From: "Duncan" <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>
To: <gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:36 PM
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: grub and maximum kernel file size
flockm...@gmx.at posted 200904091859.12109.flockm...@gmx.at, excerpted
below, on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:59:11 +0200:
thanks for the answer, i'm already running grub-0.97-r9. perhaps it is
time to switch back to good old lilo, or to play with grub2 ;)
I don't know then. Did you check the bugs mentioned in the changelog? I
think at least one of them was a size bug. It may or may not apply.
The other possible alternative might be to consider whether you actually
need that initramfs or not. Often, you won't, provided you build the
appropriate modules into the kernel and/or use an appropriate kernel
command line. One exception is root on lvm2, since that requires
userspace. However, here, while I run both kernel md/mdp RAID and LVM2,
I deliberately kept my root filesystem off of LVM, thus avoiding an
initramfs. root is on RAID (mdp), but that can be assembled by the
kernel directly, using parameters fed to it at the commandline (or since
2.6.28 IIRC, as compiled in command line parameters).
No initramfs seriously decomplicates things.
But who am I to say? It's your system, not mine. It's worth considering
tho.
What exacly is the error message you get?
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