Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (2006)

Re:Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (2006) by thenewnewguy on Sunday November 03, 2019 @04:44PM (#21436850)

I doubt the initramfs is (completely) at fault, mine is rather small (and I haven't done anything to try to minimize its size):

    $ lsinitcpio -a /boot/initramfs-linux.img
    ==> Image: initramfs-linux.img
    ==> Created with mkinitcpio 26
    ==> Kernel: 5.3.7-arch1-2-ARCH
    ==> Size: 9.87 MiB
    ==> Compressed with: gzip
      -> Uncompressed size: 25.97 MiB (.379 ratio)
      -> Estimated decompression time: 0.184s
    ...

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Re:Windows XP minimal-requirement experiments (2006) by microcolonel on Sunday November 03, 2019 @04:49PM (#21436895)

Mine (same arch kernel) is twice the size, both compressed and uncompressed, for what it's worth; I have a handful of vfio modules included explicitly, as well as amdgpu; so it's still doable. My fallback initramfs is a little over 128MiB compressed.

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