Comment 2 for bug 26426

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Rick Altherr (kc8apf) wrote :

(In reply to comment #1)
> Are you sure it's 6MB *un*compressed? I'm pretty sure that it's a limit on the
> compressed size, since yaboot doesn't decompress the initrd itself. That makes
> the problem rather more tractable; in fact, at the moment the Dapper netboot
> images fit within that limit, although I should leave this bug open to make sure
> it stays that way.

It could be the compressed size, but the yaboot team claims that the max is roughly 6.1MB. The 64-bit kernel fails
to load at all (LOAD failed error message) meaning that it ran out of space. The vmlinux image is exactly 6.1MB.