From: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
To: Christoph Pittracher <pitt@gmx.at>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.20 RAM requirements
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 08:15:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C6BB872.11A067BC@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16b5w1-0006Js-00@the-village.bc.nu> <200202140144.50805@pitt4u.2y.net>
I'll take a stab at this one - bet you are using zImage, and once
you try bzImage it will work. Saw this just recently on a low
mem machine (LILO/loadlin) & haven't had a chance to investigate
further.
Please also report gcc/binutils etc. used.
Paul.
Christoph Pittracher wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 13 February 2002 21:23, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I wanted to boot kernel version 2.2.20 on my old Pentium 75Mhz
> > > system with 16MB RAM. After "uncompressing linux" i get a: "Out Of
> > > Memory -- System halted".
> > > Kernel version 2.2.19 works without problems (same kernel
> > > configuration). I didn't tried 2.4 kernels yet, but I wonder that
> > > 2.2.20 needs so much memory?
> > It doesn't. What boot loader are you using ?
>
> LILO version 21.5-1 beta
> from Debian 2.2r5.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-14 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-13 18:57 Kernel 2.2.20 RAM requirements Christoph Pittracher
2002-02-13 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-14 0:48 ` Christoph Pittracher
2002-02-14 9:41 ` Petri Kaukasoina
2002-02-14 13:15 ` Paul Gortmaker [this message]
2002-02-14 13:54 ` Alan Cox
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