loadlin corrupts large initrd
 

When I use LOADLIN (1.6c) to boot a linux system, it appears that LOADLIN loads a corrupted image of the initial ramdisk (initrd=) when the compressed size of the ram disk image exceeds about 5.8 Mbytes ! The symptoms of a corrupted image vary: sometimes the Kernel will complain about an invalid compressed RAMDISK image, other times errors will be generated by attempts to read beyond the bounds of the image, and sometimes the Kernel will just "hang".

I have carefully read the "constraints" in the LOADLIN documentation and I do not appear to be in violation of any of the listed contraints. This problem appears on old computers (100 MHZ, Pentium-S with 64MBytes of RAM) as well as newer computers (3.00 GHZ P4 with 2 GBytes of RAM). The Kernel being loaded is 2.4.20-31-9 (updated RedHat 9).

- Can anyone else confirm this behavior ?
- Any solutions (other than using a smaller ramdisk :) ?

Thanks, Scott.