On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:33:00PM +0200, Petr Stehlik wrote: > V Út, 03. 08. 2004 v 14:20, Stephen R Marenka pí?e: > > > Could please someone with Atari (and their own working kernel) give it a > > > try and tell me if the d-i works or not. I tried several last builds but > > > it doesn't do anything. I am also wondering if it's OK that the ramdisk > > > file of Sarge's d-i is only 4 MB large - Woody has 7 MB file (and > > > works). > > > > The 2.4-based ramdisks use shmfs (and pivot_root) for the actual > > installation root. It comes out to be about 12MB. > > Hmmm. In your daily/atari folder there is just floppy-root.img.gz of > size 1.2 MB. When this is unpacked it's a HD floppy image and when that > one is unpacked again (loop mount) and again (the file.gz found on the > floppy) the resulting file size is slightly over 4 MB. Not sure what > shmfs and pivot_root is but there is not 12 MB of data anywhere as far > as I can see. The ramdisk you're looking at there is used to setup a shmfs root disk in ram, populate it, and pivot_root to make it the root. d-i proceeds from there. > Also, I managed to get the woody install working when I replaced the > root=/dev/ram with a physical device and so skipped the part where the > root is loaded to ramdisk and unpacked there. > > Now is the shmfs/pivot_root supposed be fooled by the same trick > (root=/dev/hdx) or won't this work at all? I have no idea. I suppose it should work just fine. The modifications for 2.2 kernels don't use shmfs at all, but rather just use the existing ramdisk (which ends up being about 13MB, instead of 4). If the trick doesn't work out-of-the-box, I feel sure it can be supported. I just haven't had time to work on it. > > Would it help if I built a kernel using your proposed patch? > > Chris already built the kernel and everybody should test it (I'll do > that when I get home tonight). But this is not a kernel question but > rather problem of small RAM again. I have just 4 MB of RAM, 2 of it > consumes the kernel. There are about 2 MB left. Not enough for any > ramdisk. I need a way of skipping the ramdisk phase... When the kernel > is running there are 64 MB of FastRAM available so it's OK, I just need > to get the d-i running without the ramdisk somehow. So the ramdisk can't be loaded into the 64MB is that correct? At least I see the problem now. I wonder if the shmfs file system can be created in the 64MB. -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
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