The size of fedora's boot cd initrd

Ingvar Hagelund ingvar at linpro.no
Thu Jul 29 08:06:36 EDT 2010


On older CHRP based hardware, like the IBM RS/6000 7046 B50, Open
Firmware offers a maximum of 16MB for kernel and initrd. The last Fedora
ppc installer that got below this was Fedora 9. Later kernels boot fine,
but not in combination with a "large" initrd.

It may be that insisting on installing a modern OS on old boxes like
this is plain silly, but still...

Is it possible to get around this? Is it for example possible to boot
the kernel and mount a NFS share with the initrd image as the root fs,
and continue loading the installer from there?

Or is it possible to trick yaboot or the firmware to boot anyway?

Ingvar




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