MD ROOT and image size limitation (makes kernel panic)

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Mon May 16 19:18:21 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:36 AM,  <rank1seeker at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a 4 GB or ram, so why kernel panic with my MD ROOT, if larger then
> ~40 MB?
> I've tried to split up root in 20MB image and usr in 160 MB
> Via loader.conf root becomes md0 and usr md1 and panic occurs even when
> they are split
>
> I had to get rid of md1, to be able to boot with md0 as a root.
>
> What exactly imposes limitation, inside kernel's code to SIZE of an image?
> My hardware definatelly isn't ...
>
> Is this different on amd64?
> I've tested this, only with i386.

Screenshot please?
Thanks,
-Garrett


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