From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263618AbTDIRFd (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:05:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263622AbTDIRFd (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:05:33 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:36778 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263618AbTDIRFc (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 13:05:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:16:50 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Hermann Himmelbauer Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.20 on a 4 MB Laptop Message-ID: <20030409171650.GA30376@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Hermann Himmelbauer , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200304091601.55821.dusty@violin.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304091601.55821.dusty@violin.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:01:55PM +0200, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > I currently try installing Linux on an old IBM Laptop. (IBM Thinkpad 340, > 486SLC 25/50 from 1994). The laptop only has 4 MB RAM, so I installed a > simple Linux distribution on a better computer, recompiled Linux 2.4.20 and > stripped out everything I could (with menuconfig): No networking. FPU > emulation. The only "luxury" I left is "ext3" - perhaps this uses a lot of > memory? > Well - anyway, the kernel boots but right stops after: > INIT: Entering runlevel:3 > The next line is: > INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > ... > That's it. > What I want to know is if this happens just because of the low memory (4MB) or > if there is another reason for this behaviour. > What do you think: What are the minimum requirements for Linux on such a > laptop (no X, of course, very simple setup): 8MB, 12MB? Try using init=/bin/sh, doing swapon manually, and then exec /sbin/init -- wli