Hi!
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?
best regards,
Christoph
> 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 ?
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.
best regards,
Christoph
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.
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.
> 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.
The zImage/bzImage one should be fixed in 2.2.21pre