[TriLUG] how to make an arbitrarily sized ramdisk?

[Donald Ball]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Jonathan Magid wrote:

> I believe adding to your lilo.conf:
>
> append="ramdisk_size=65536"
>
> will do the trick. Haven't tried it- just UTSL. If you use grub or some
> other boot loader, check the manual on how to put things on the kernel
> command line.

boy, that's queer, that you have to set it as a global kernel parameter.
suppose you wanted two differently sized ram disks? i would have expected
more (easy) configurability from good ol' linux.

- donald