jan damborsky wrote: > Hi Dave, > > > On 04/02/09 00:12, Dave Miner wrote: >> This note is just an early warning of changes that are expected to >> arrive in build 111a, in order to fix >> >> 6440 Build 106 installer fails to start in 512 MB environment >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6440 >> >> Briefly, we're splitting the boot archive for the live CD into >> separate 32- and 64-bit archives, which buys back a large chunk of >> memory, sufficient to overcome the bloat that's crept in since 2008.11. > > With respect to separating boot archives, I am thinking if there might be a > case when both might be needed during early stage of boot process. I am > referring to 'min_mem64' GRUB option - it boots kernel in 32-bit mode even > on 64-bit capable machines if there is not sufficient amount of memory > (I think 1GB is required for LiveCD), since 32-bit kernel is less memory > hungry. > I am not sure what is the order of related actions GRUB takes, so this might > not be issue for this fix - just wanted to bring this up in order to be > sure. >
Not an issue. GRUB picks the kernel and archive pair consistently by using the kernel$ and module$ constructs and accounts for the min_mem64 setting in that selection, so you'll only need the modules that go with the kernel's ISA. Dave
