From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Mills Subject: Re: Minimum RAM for ELKS? Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 11:05:54 +0100 Message-ID: <446AF582.2090304@webshed.org> References: <20060515195230.66257.qmail@web51307.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060515195230.66257.qmail@web51307.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org Tom McCabe wrote: > > --- Vikas Kumar wrote: > >> Hey Dave >> Use Bochs emulator. Set the RAM to how much ever >> your target machine >> has, and use an elks image and see if it works. iF >> it works on this >> setting, it should work on your target hardware as >> well. >> >> Vikas > > I remember there being an option in the ELKS > configuration about how many 64 KB memory pages were > necessary, and the minimum was 4 (256 KB). Also, I've > noticed that even on a modern system with the full 640 > KB possible, the ash and rc shells don't run (if sash > isn't linked to /bin/sh, it crashes on bootup). Thanks Vikas & Tom. I'll give the bochs idea a try. I'm really just trying to get the smallest kernel running that I can. cheers, Dave