Re: Trying to installing an old mac68k
Hola Thiemo Seufer!
> [snip: Mac with 12 MB]
> > It's an OOPS. I have the screenshot on a digital camera. These are the
> > lines I copied from the screen:
> > Data write fault at 0x00AFF000 in Super Data (pc=0x214FC)
> > Bad Kernel BUSERR
> > (...)
> > Process Swapper (pid=1, stackpage=001bf000)
> > (...)
> This basically says the kernel tried to write somwhere beyond the end
> of the physical RAM (I guess when expanding the initrd), which triggered
> the swapper process, which in turn fails because it can only map
> userspace memory pages.
Right. We guessed something like this, and then tried to reduce the
ramdisk image. I did not do this myself, the other guys in the team did
it, but if I understood them well, it seems the filesystem was almost
empty, and they could reduce it to 4Mb. But the error did not change.
I'm guessing that they forgot to do something when reducing the
filesystem, but I don't know what.
> > Ok, now, is there a chance that debian-installer might work on this? :)
> I doubt it. The ramdisk would have to be substantially smaller in order
> to leave enough RAM for the userland processes. The minimum configuration
> which was reported to work so far was 16 MB, with removing much stuff
> in the ramdisk manually while the install was running.
Ok, I'll keep trying anyway. It would be nice to have debian-installer
work in this old machines :).
Love,
Marga.
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