Bug#60679: rescue/root disk boot fails with 8 megs of ram
On Mon Mar 20, 2000 at 07:32:25PM -0500, Chris Ruvolo wrote:
> 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?
It shoud be ok now. If it doesn't work in 8 Megs,
please let us know ASAP,
-Erik
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