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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:05:05 -0200 (BRDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Francois romieu <romieu@ensta.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap=<device> kernel commandline
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On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Francois romieu wrote:
> The Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 01:46:40PM +0200, Kaj-Michael Lang wrote :
> > This patch adds a swap kernel commandline option, so that you can add a
> > swap partition before init starts running on a low-memory machine. 
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^

> Did you try and add swap from an initrd image ? It should work
> and it's already there.

Did you try to load an initrd on a low-memory machine?
It shouldn't work and it probably won't ;)

regards,

Rik
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