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Bug#60679: rescue/root disk boot fails with 8 megs of ram



>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:

    Adam> Ok -- if someone could determine the minimum RAM requirements, we
    Adam> could update that.

 It works in 12MB, I found.

    >> I'd also like to suggest bringing back the lowmem boot floppies for those
    >> of us with older hardware.  Only having 5 megs of ram left after the
    >> kernel gets loaded is rather limiting.

    Adam> Well, it doesn't seem likely at this point since even though it gets
    Adam> requested quite often, no one with expertise is actually working on it
    Adam> (that I know of).

 Maybe for woody; Unless Chris would like to work on it?


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