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by manuel_w 809 days ago
> Wait I'm not following, why must the decompressed contents of the initramfs fit within half of physical ram?

It makes sense if you replace "initramfs" with "initrd":

> One pitfall of this is that the decompressed contents of your ~initramfs~ _initrd_ must fit within half of your physical RAM since Linux decompresses it into a tmpfs. > Or if you set rootfstype=ramfs, then you can take up to all of physical RAM