On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 11:00:52AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote: | On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:43:39AM +0200, Guy Geens wrote: | > >>>>> "Martin" == Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > Martin> instead, it keeps crashing on me... kernel panic in pid 0 | > Martin> "process swapper." however, memtest86 reports no errors for | > Martin> the RAM chip, and badblocks, run with the destructive write | > Martin> option, reports no bad blocks within the swap partition. | > | > My guess is that you simply have not enough memory. | | AFAIK 8MB is enough to boot linux, or it should be.
I can verify this. I am using an old Gateway2000 i486sx, 25MHz with 8MB RAM right now to write this. I have ~32MB swap. It is running as a router for my dial-up connection, but it also has a keyboard and monitor so I am using it for ssh-ing to school to read my mail (and write this). I have kernel 2.2.19 and have no stability problems (only performance problems :-), for example when I use dpkg) -D
