On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 12:10 +0100, Martin Bochnig wrote: > Darren J Moffat wrote: > > > Which build is this based on ? > > > > -- > > Darren J Moffat > > > More importantly, which ISA/ARCH is it based on. > He forgot to mention that most important piece of information. > > It must have been sparc, because sparc doesn't use grub so far. > To boot Grub based "newboot" flavours of Solaris x86/x64 (and therefore > 2.10_U1 or higher, or 2.11_b15(circa) or higher) with only 64MB of > physical mem, one needed to have a _very_ small custimozed boot archive. > See Moinak Ghosh's good work to shrink that down beyond the limits. > (The boot archive is pre-(down)-loaded and must completely fit into ram.) > > I doubt DC has worked on that. > It can only be sparc because of that.
Likely you are right. I wonder if we could do the trick similar to what Linux kernel is doing with initrd? i.e. free up ram disk space for applications after kernel is initialized and HDD root is mounted. -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
