From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264148AbTDJSIP (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:08:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264150AbTDJSIP (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:08:15 -0400 Received: from WARSL401PIP6.highway.telekom.at ([195.3.96.93]:36665 "HELO email03.aon.at") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264148AbTDJSIM (for ); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:08:12 -0400 From: Hermann Himmelbauer To: Nuno Silva Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.20 on a 4 MB Laptop Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:19:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200304091601.55821.dusty@violin.dyndns.org> <3E94DCA1.5020106@vgertech.com> In-Reply-To: <3E94DCA1.5020106@vgertech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304102019.32019.dusty@violin.dyndns.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 10 April 2003 04:53, Nuno Silva wrote: > Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > > 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. > > Maybe you striped too much and didn't include *any* console type > (serial, vga or framebuffer)? :) No, I thought of this - in menuconfig I use this: [*] Virtual terminal [*] Support for console on virtual terminal Moreover the exact same kernel boots in another notebook (P-II, 333 Mhz, 144MB Ram) - I simply put the 2.5'' Harddisk in the other Laptop. Anyway, I'll try the following: 1) Try to get more RAM ( + 8MB, 12MB should be enough - but maybe I'll never get this IBM specific DRAM-cards for this old laptop. 2) Kick out ext3 - this could save more memory 3) Try init=/bin/sh and "swapon" manually 4) Use an older or memory optimized kernel Booting with "mem=4" will probably also help with testing. Many thanks for your helpful replies! Best Regards, Hermann -- x1@aon.at GPG key ID: 299893C7 (on keyservers) FP: 0124 2584 8809 EF2A DBF9 4902 64B4 D16B 2998 93C7