From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Olson Subject: Re: ELKS on Amstrad PPC 512 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 21:33:51 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021118213045.A46708-100000@agora.rdrop.com> References: <3DD3B2560015C471@mel-rta7.wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3DD3B2560015C471@mel-rta7.wanadoo.fr> (added by postmaster@wanadoo.fr) List-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Liste ELKS It took me a minute, but I finally figured out what makes this system "different" enough that it won't run ELKS, it only has 512k of RAM! Th= is may not mean that it's impossible to get ELKS running on this system, b= ut the pre-compiled versions of the OS expect 640k or RAM. I suppose some= one else can better answer this, but I believe there is a kernal option tha= t can be changed at compile time to use less memory. Being a laptop, I suppose sticking a little more memory on the bus isn't that easy (on a machine with ISA slots, a memory board could be added). Dan > Hello happy old computers users :-) > > I'm trying to install ELKS on an Amstrad laptop : > http://www.bolo.ch/?list=3D2&obj=3D131 ... This strange PC has a NecV= 30, > two 720 kb floppies and 512kb of ram (impossible to upgrade). > > Using the boot & root images from elks.images-0.1.0.zip, I obtain a > message with the root disk : > > --------- > Unable to open /dev/tty (error 2) > dup failed > No init - running /bin/sh > > panic: No init or sh found > apparant call stack : > --------- > > Before writing to the list, I've searched via Google groups. A messag= e > was about compiling with option "BIOS console" as Character device > driver. But the compilation doesn't succeed : > > --------- > (cd ../.. ; ld86 -0 -i \ > arch/i86/boot/crt0.o arch/i86/boot/crt1.o \ > init/main.o kernel/kernel.a fs/fs.a lib/lib.a net/net.a > fs/minix/minixfs.a arch/i86/kernel/akernel.a arch/i86/lib/lib86.a > arch/i86/mm/mm.a arch/i86/drivers/char/chr_drv.a > arch/i86/drivers/block/blk_drv.a \ > -t -M -o arch/i86/boot/system > System.tmp ; \ > sort -k4 System.tmp > System.map ; rm -f System.tmp ) > undefined symbol: _debug1 > tools/build boot/bootsect boot/setup boot/system > boot/Image > Root device is (3, -128) > Boot sector 512 bytes. > Setup is 1472 bytes. > Unable to open 'system' > make[1]: *** [Image] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/elks-0.1.1/arch/i86' > make: *** [Image] Error 2 > --------- > > Any idea ? > > I've found messages showing that ELKS runs well on an Amstrad PPC 640 > (the model with 640 kb of ram). Has anyone succeeded with a PPC 512 ? > -- > "S'il n'y a pas de solution, > c'est qu'il n'y a pas de probl=E8me" > Proverbe Shadok > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html