Re: Kernel 2.2.20 RAM requirements

From: Paul Gortmaker (p_gortmaker@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 08:15:30 EST


I'll take a stab at this one - bet you are using zImage, and once
you try bzImage it will work. Saw this just recently on a low
mem machine (LILO/loadlin) & haven't had a chance to investigate
further.

Please also report gcc/binutils etc. used.

Paul.

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.

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