Re: Bug#60679: rescue/root disk boot fails with 8 megs of ram
>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Ruvolo <csr6702@grace.rit.edu> writes:
Chris> Package: boot-floppies
Chris> Version: 2.2.8-2000-03-09
Chris> Yesterday I attempted to do an installtion off of the potato rescue/root
Chris> disks on a 486DX-33 with 8 megs of ram. Upon attempting to load the root
Chris> disk, an out-of-memory condition was reported.
Chris> So, I decided to move the HD into another machine to perform the
Chris> installation. While going through the installation, there is a message
Chris> saying that the installation requires 8 megs if swap is being used, and 14
Chris> megs without swap being used.
Chris> Now, afaik, there is no way to create swap before the HD is partitioned.
Chris> Does this make the real memory requirements of the boot floppies 14 megs?
Chris> If so, please update all the documentation. Everything I've seen says
Chris> that it'll work fine with 8 megs.
Chris> I'd also like to suggest bringing back the lowmem boot floppies for those
Chris> of us with older hardware. Only having 5 megs of ram left after the
Chris> kernel gets loaded is rather limiting.
I found that `busybox' "init.c:check_free_memory()" only looks at
`info.freeram'. Shouldn't it also look at `info.bufferram'?
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