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From: Petri Kaukasoina <kaukasoi@elektroni.ee.tut.fi>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.20 RAM requirements
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:41:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020214094126.GA19451@elektroni.ee.tut.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16b5w1-0006Js-00@the-village.bc.nu> <200202140144.50805@pitt4u.2y.net>
In-Reply-To: <200202140144.50805@pitt4u.2y.net>

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:48:28AM +0100, 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.

If you are using zImage, try bzImage. zImage gives 'Out of memory -- System
halted' from version 2.2.20pre5 up to 2.2.20. In 2.2.21pre1 and pre2 it
works ok again.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-14  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-13 18:57 Christoph Pittracher
2002-02-13 20:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-14  0:48   ` Christoph Pittracher
2002-02-14  9:41     ` Petri Kaukasoina [this message]
2002-02-14 13:15     ` Paul Gortmaker
2002-02-14 13:54       ` Alan Cox

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