I have been using syslinux and slackware 12.2 for several years to make a bootable thumb drive that loads and runs linux from a ram disk. I recently switched to slackware 13.37 with syslinux 3.84. That switch resulted in the limit=32768 and panic problem. I have searched and read many comments and see that initramfs might be a better option than initrd. I have not been able to properly configure and run using initramfs nor have I been able to find a good sample that is similar to my desired use. The shell script that I used to create the thumb drive under 12.2 is listed below. Can someone tell me how to alter this for initramfs?? The initrd line is the 5th from the bottom. Thanks in advance. - Neal Nelson ------------------------- umask 0 set -x dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/pt0100 bs=1k count=1500000 mkfs -t ext2 -i 8192 -b 1024 -F /tmp/pt0100 mkdir /tmp/mnt mount -o loop /tmp/pt0100 /tmp/mnt mkdir /tmp/mnt/mnt /tmp/mnt/tmp /tmp/mnt/proc/ cp -a /bin /tmp/mnt cp -a /boot /tmp/mnt cp -a /dev /tmp/mnt cp -a /etc /tmp/mnt cp -a /home /tmp/mnt cp -a /lib /tmp/mnt cp -a /media /tmp/mnt cp -a /opt /tmp/mnt cp -a /root /tmp/mnt cp -a /sbin /tmp/mnt cp -a /srv /tmp/mnt cp -a /sys /tmp/mnt mkdir /tmp/mnt/usr mkdir /tmp/mnt/usr/bin cp -a /usr/bin /tmp/mnt/usr mkdir /tmp/mnt/usr/sbin cp -a /usr/sbin /tmp/mnt/usr mkdir /tmp/mnt/usr/spool cp -a /usr/spool /tmp/mnt/usr mkdir /tmp/mnt/usr/local cp -a /usr/local /tmp/mnt/usr mkdir /tmp/mnt/usr/share cp -a /usr/share /tmp/mnt/usr mkdir /tmp/mnt/usr/lib cp -a /usr/lib /tmp/mnt/usr cp -a /var /tmp/mnt umount /tmp/mnt gzip -c -9 /tmp/pt0100 > /tmp/pt0100.gz mkdosfs -F 16 /dev/sdb1 dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb syslinux? /dev/sdb1 mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mnt echo "DEFAULT Lite" > /tmp/mnt/syslinux.cfg echo "PROMPT 1" >> /tmp/mnt/syslinux.cfg echo "IMPLICIT 0" >> /tmp/mnt/syslinux.cfg echo "TIMEOUT 30" >> /tmp/mnt/syslinux.cfg echo " " >> /tmp/mnt/syslinux.cfg echo "LABEL Lite" >> /tmp/mnt/syslinux.cfg echo " KERNEL vmlinuz" >> /tmp/mnt/syslinux.cfg echo "APPEND initrd=pt0100.gz ramdisk=1500000 rw root=/dev/ram" >> /tmp/mnt/syslinux.cfg cp /boot/vmlinuz /tmp/mnt cp /tmp/pt0100.gz /tmp/mnt fdisk /dev/sdb umount /tmp/mnt ------------------------- Neal Nelson & Associates