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bredroll

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« on: August 25, 2004, 07:50:45 pm »
If I flash my 5500 with just the zImage on the CF card with a kernel with a different ramdisk size to the one i currently have installed, what will happen?

i have noticed the contents of /dev/ram only vanish after resets, not reboots.
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« Reply #1 on: August 25, 2004, 08:56:25 pm »
Well, the results of my experiment are...

when you go from a kernel with a ramdisk to one with none, nothing goes wrong :-)
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« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2004, 01:13:37 am »
Does that mean it worked ok, and you were able to change the size of your ramdisk? Or does nothing happen at all?
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« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2004, 06:17:31 am »
Hi,

It worked fine and now I am running 64mb - 0mb ramdisk, where before I was running 32-32.

Ian
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Sandisk 128mb SD