Bug#319878: kernel-image-2.6-686: the entire range of 2.6 debian kernels do not install on m/cs with <= 48mb RAM

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 01:33:24PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.6-686
> Version: 2.6.5-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> not one single one of the 2.6 kernels - 2.6.5, 2.6.6, 2.6.7, 2.6.8,
> 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11 nor 2.6.12 - can be installed on a system with
> less than 48mb of RAM - because of the hungry memory requirements
> of the initial ram disk.

I think this is more a initrd-tools issue, and as initrd-tools is going to go
away in the near future ...

That said, did you perchance try to set MODULES=dep instead of MODULES=most in
/etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf ? I asked for this to be the default on powerpc,
since i had the same kind of huge, useless initrd problems, but as it was
difficult to get this change in even after asking for it during months and
months, i guess it didn't do to do the same for x86.

Friendly,

Sven Luther