Re: ramdisk + X

[Robert Thompson <robertt@stargate.cs.swau.edu>]

Uh, it may be no relation, and everything I say may be bogus, but while
trying to do something similar I discovered that the default 4mb ramdisk
under current 2.2.x kernels won't handle ramdisk images > 4mb , duh... I
was getting fs errors on mount, then failure, due to the fact that my init
was in the latter half of the fsimage.

BTW, what is the smallest filesystem anyone's ever managed to fit a X
server onto? I need to be able to turn a PC lab into a bunch of X
terminals for one of our programming classes. This class, incidentally,
was taught in Windows/Builder last semester... =)



On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, S. Arun wrote:

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|
|I was able to successfully run X using etherboot and netboot with the root
|filesystem being NFS mounted. I then ran an X -query server in inittab and
|I got the familiar xdm screen with a mesh background and the login dialog
|box.
|
|I then tried using the root filesystem as an initial ramdisk, I got the
|mesh background but I failed to get the login dialog box. After waiting
|for a sufficient length of time, I pressed Ctrl-Alt-backspace and I
|noticed the error message - XDM: Too many retransmissions. 
|
|In making the ramdisk image, I used the NFS mounted root fs and there is
|absolutely no difference between the two. Then why is it that in the case
|of initrd + ramdisk I fail to get the X-win login dialog box?
|
|Thanx in advance
|S. Arun
|
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