Re: Debian on a Super Lean Laptop Part I - Making it Work
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:24:31PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > Scarletdown wrote:
> >> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-3-486
> >> [Linux-initrd @ 0x10b3000, 0x76cdf9 bytes]
> >>
> >> After that, she's locked up tight, and all I can do is power off.
> >>
> >> This is obviously a problem with initrd. Set too large for such a low
> >> memory system perhaps?
> >
> > I doubt it, since your initrd is only 7 mb.
> >
> > This seems more likely to be a problem with your bootloader. Quite
> > possibly grub is not configured to read the initrd from the correct disk
> > device. It can be hard to get that right when preparing an disk image on
> > another machine.
> >
> > Or possibly, given the age of the hardware, the initrd is not located
> > near enough to the front of the drive for grub to be able to access it.
> > (Which is why having a separate /boot partition first used to be a good
> > idea.)
> >
>
> I would take a live-cd or usb disk (there are images available). Avoid using
> gnome or kde - your system wont make it.
A Live CD puts some files in a ramdisk, and thus wastes some more RAM.
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