kernel panic on boot

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Wed Dec 20 05:05:59 UTC 2006


On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:47:28PM -0800, Steven I Usdansky wrote:
> Also, the initrd-xxx-img
> file for the more recent kernels are over twice the size of the file
> associated with kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6. Why?

This at least I can tell. :-)  'nash' used to be linked static
and now was replaced by dynamic one.  All these libraries and
a loader on initrd swell it in a substantial manner.

   Michal




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