Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 04:41:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 04:41:44 -0500 Received: from elektroni.ee.tut.fi ([130.230.131.11]:20229 "HELO elektroni.ee.tut.fi") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 04:41:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:41:26 +0200 From: Petri Kaukasoina To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.20 RAM requirements Message-ID: <20020214094126.GA19451@elektroni.ee.tut.fi> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200202140144.50805@pitt4u.2y.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200202140144.50805@pitt4u.2y.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. - 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/