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

[Chris Ruvolo <csr6702@grace.rit.edu>]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:

>    >> 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?


If you are referring to me, I certainly would like to.  However, I do lack
the expertise, let alone any experience with boot floppies besides as a
user of them.  

Where would one go about making the cuts necessary to reduce the memory
requirements?  In the kernel?  In the size and contents of the ram
disk?

Perhaps someone else on the boot-floppies list has something to offer?

Also, will the code change mentioned before allow the system to now boot
with 8 megs?  I'm not sure it was clear from the above.  Does that make
this bug resolved?


Thanks,
Chris