Re: [Rule-list] Modified installer

[Brock Organ]

On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 12:39, Brock Organ wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-02-15 at 18:03, Devon wrote:
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> > On Friday 15 February 2002 03:29 pm, Brock Organ wrote:
> > > 32 Mb and 24 Mb and 16 Mb of RAM (faked using linux mem=24M at the
> > > syslinux prompt) installed the low memory install class ... I was
> > > unable to test rebooting into the installed system with the mem= kernel
> > > parameter as it caused the kernel to be unable to load the aic7xxx
> > > module to load the root fs ...
> > 
> > Reading that again...
> > Are you saying it installed and booted at 16M and 32M, but failed when 
> > you passed the 'mem=24M' boot parameter?
> 
> the installer was able to cope with the mem= kernel command line
> parameter, but the installed system would not boot when using the
> parameter, so I didn't use it and it booted fine (into 128+ Mb of RAM)
> ... so I couldn't use the command line parameter to tell if the
> installed system would boot ...
> 

additional tests on a machine with mem=16Mb for the installer worked (no
scsi, only ide based PII) ... additionally, installed machine boots and
even runs in 16 Mb (after swap turned off) although the kswapd process
uses 99 % of CPU resources at a constant level ... responsiveness is
fairly respectable though ...

brock


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