Re: SRM vs ARC
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 09:48:27AM +1300, Martin Lucina wrote:
>
> > > I'd not heard about the memory footprint issue. Can you quantify it?
> > > Is this the loss of some memory when the system is running?
> >
> > Yes, and the loss is around a megabyte or 1.5 megabytes if I recall
> > correctly.
>
> I am booting MILO from SRM with 32 MB of RAM and the kernel reports 30256 kb
> total memory, accounting for the fact that this is minus about 1536 kb of
> the kernel itself, this doesnt seem like a huge loss.
>
> Or is this only when you boot from SRM using aboot?
>
> Also, has anyone been able to get 2.2.0 (and the various pre-2.2/2.1.13x)
> kernels to boot using either aboot/rawboot? I would like to do this rather
> than using SRM to load MILO but have had no luck.
I'm booting 2.2.0 from srm/aboot. In upgrading from 2.0.35 to 2.2.0,
I added an entry to the aboot.conf file with the new kernel image,
changed the bootflags in srm, and it booted the first time.
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