Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:48:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:48:48 -0500 Received: from [62.46.129.105] ([62.46.129.105]:48769 "EHLO pitt.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:48:36 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Christoph Pittracher Organization: PITT Message-Id: <200202140144.50805@pitt4u.2y.net> To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.20 RAM requirements Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 01:48:28 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/