Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-17 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:12:48PM -0600, Adam Majer wrote: | On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:14:36PM +0100, Gr?gory Kar?kinian wrote: | > Hello, | > | > Thank you guys, that's exactly the answer i needed :). I can't compile a | > kernel on this machine (it's a 486 @ 66 mhz.. Slow even to untar :p). |

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 11:14:36PM +0100, Gr?gory Kar?kinian wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you guys, that's exactly the answer i needed :). I can't compile a > kernel on this machine (it's a 486 @ 66 mhz.. Slow even to untar :p). > I'll keep my 2.2 for now. You _can_ build it - it takes about 2-4h de

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Grégory Karékinian([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > > I've been searching on google but found no way to boot a 2.4 kernel > without initrd. I indeed don't have any scsi hdd, so i don't think i > need it. What? I have been booting 2.4.x kernels for months now, without initrd, o

RE: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread Grégory Karékinian
Sent: samedi 16 février 2002 22:03 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic > > [...] > works just as with 2.2 or 2.0. configure the kernel without initrd > support, compile it with make-kpkg, install it with dpkg, r

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Grégory! On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Grégory Karékinian wrote: > I've been searching on google but found no way to boot a 2.4 kernel > without initrd. I indeed don't have any scsi hdd, so i don't think i > need it. works just as with 2.2 or 2.0. configure the kernel without initrd support, compile

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 09:23:30PM +0100, Grégory Karékinian wrote: | Hi, | | I've been searching on google but found no way to boot a 2.4 kernel | without initrd. This is a snippet of the kernel configuration documentation : ~ Initial RAM disk (initrd) support CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD The in

RE: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread Grégory Karékinian
Sent: samedi 16 février 2002 21:13 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic > > [...] > > Do you really need to boot through initrd? A customized 2.4 > kernel that > does not depend on initrd, should have no problems a

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 07:40:53PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > Gr?gory Kar?kinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I understand the reason of this error (only 8 megs of ram on this > > computer, but is is possible to boot a 2.4 kernel with 8 megs ? > > (Making a smaller ramdisk ? Been searching on

Re: Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-16 Thread Herbert Xu
Gr?gory Kar?kinian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand the reason of this error (only 8 megs of ram on this > computer, but is is possible to boot a 2.4 kernel with 8 megs ? > (Making a smaller ramdisk ? Been searching on google, found out it's 4 > megs by defaut... That's a lot). Yes, but

Kernel 2.4, 8 megs of ram and kernel panic

2002-02-15 Thread Grégory Karékinian
Hi, I just installed a 2.4 kernel image on my woody box (binutils asked to upgrade the kernel due to linking failure...), Everything went fine until the beginning of the boot process (lilo well configured, of course). I get the following error : RAMDISK: Loading 3204 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk