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

[karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom)]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Ruvolo <csr6702@grace.rit.edu> writes:

    Chris> 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?

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

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

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

 Start reading in the utilities/lomem dir, I guess.

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

 I think that Erik Anderson is fixing the free ram check in init
 today.  It way reporting not enough memory when there may really have
 been enough to boot with 8Mb.