Hi,
The Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 01:46:40PM +0200, Kaj-Michael Lang wrote :
> This patch adds a swap kernel commandline option, so that you can add a
> swap partition before init starts running on a low-memory machine.
Did you try and add swap from an initrd image ? It should work and it's
already
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Francois romieu wrote:
> The Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 01:46:40PM +0200, Kaj-Michael Lang wrote :
> > This patch adds a swap kernel commandline option, so that you can add a
> > swap partition before init starts running on a low-memory machine.
Rik van Riel wrote:
> Did you try to load an initrd on a low-memory machine?
> It shouldn't work and it probably won't ;)
You must be really low on memory ;-)
# zcat initrd.gz | wc -c
409600
(ash, pwd, chroot, pivot_root, smount, and still about 82 kB free.)
- Werner
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Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> > Did you try to load an initrd on a low-memory machine?
> > It shouldn't work and it probably won't ;)
>
> You must be really low on memory ;-)
>
> # zcat initrd.gz | wc -c
> 409600
>
> (ash, pwd, chroot, pivot_root, smou
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I have one that loads a second kernel over the network using dhcp
> to configure it's interface and tftp to fetch the image and boots
> that is only 20kb uncompressed
Neat ;-) My goal is actually not only size, but also to have a relatively
normal build environment
Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > I have one that loads a second kernel over the network using dhcp
> > to configure it's interface and tftp to fetch the image and boots
> > that is only 20kb uncompressed
>
> Neat ;-) My goal is actually not only
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) =
>Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> > I have one that loads a second kernel over the network using dhcp
>> > to configure it's interface and tftp to fetch the image and boots
>> >
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Hmm. What does it take to mount an NFS partition?
Mainly Sun RPC :-(
> Anyway. All I did was wrote a tiny libc that is just a bunch of
> wrappers for syscalls, and some string functions.
Certainly a good approach. It's also basically the idea behind newlib,
although
Hi1
> > Did you try to load an initrd on a low-memory machine?
> > It shouldn't work and it probably won't ;)
>
> You must be really low on memory ;-)
>
> # zcat initrd.gz | wc -c
> 409600
>
> (ash, pwd, chroot, pivot_root, smount, and still about 82 kB free.)
Your solution requires 400K ini
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