>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Galbraith <mikeg@weiden.de> writes:
Mike> I suggest giving pre5 a trial run. I suspect that it will work quite
Mike> well on your low ram box. If this suspicion proves accurate, that bit
Mike> of info could be useful to the vm wizards. [mvho: if it takes your box
Mike> 20 minutes to an hour to boot with >=test1 kernels, further testing
Mike> of these kernels on your hardware is a pointless waste of your time]
Yes, I will give it try. But it will still take a bit of time though before
I have results. Hopefully before monday.
PS. Perhaps I haven't mentioned this. It's a 486, but I have configured it
with CONFIG_M586=y, and egcs 2.91.66.
Here some more messages from my log:
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: Linux version 2.4.0-test1 (root@tardis) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #5 Sun May 28 22:44:37 MEST 2000
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: e820: 000000000009f000 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: e820: 0000000000f30000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 4144
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: zone(1): 48 pages.
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=302
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Jun 14 23:08:21 flappie kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Jun 14 23:08:22 flappie kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 37.38 BogoMIPS
Jun 14 23:08:24 flappie kernel: Memory: 13716k/16576k available (1603k kernel code, 2472k reserved, 118k data, 204k init, 0k highmem)
Jun 14 23:08:27 flappie kernel: Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Jun 14 23:08:29 flappie kernel: Dentry-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Jun 14 23:08:30 flappie kernel: Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Jun 14 23:08:31 flappie kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Jun 14 23:08:31 flappie kernel: kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given - bdev_cache
Jun 14 23:08:32 flappie kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Jun 14 23:08:32 flappie kernel: kmem_create: Poisoning requested, but con given - inode_cache
Jun 14 23:08:32 flappie kernel: CPU: Intel 486 DX/4 stepping 00
Jun 14 23:08:33 flappie kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Jun 14 23:08:33 flappie kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
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