Less than 4MB RAM

George (greerga@entropy.muc.muohio.edu)
Mon, 16 Jun 1997 16:10:03 -0400 (EDT)

After using a 2.0.29 kernel on a Toshiba 2105CS Laptop for a bit, I decided
to compile a custom kernel on a Pentium/90 around. After downloading the
2.1.36 kernel (stable at only 1 oops in 2 months of 24/7 uptime), I used
loadlin to load the new kernel the same way the 2.0.29 kernel was:

loadlin zimage root=/dev/hda1 reboot=warm rw
rw for umsdos and reboot because 28meg memory check takes a while.

After that I received the message:
Less than 4MB of RAM.

-- System Halted.

So I added mem=28M to the loadlin line. No luck. I recompiled the kernel
without the offending lines in arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c, same
thing. (after make dep clean zImage)

It's a 486/50 with 4MB onboard RAM and a 24MB Toshiba expansion memory
module (not PC Card). From the 2.0.29 kernel:

Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 24.88 BogoMIPS
Memory: 26756k/28672k available (760k kernel code, 384k reserved, 772k data)

I'll try the latest kernel here shortly...

-George Greer