Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing using GRUB
Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 08:12:40
Message-Id: 200205091510.35854.pauldv@cs.kun.nl
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Installing using GRUB by Jan Henkins
1 On Wednesday 08 May 2002 16:39, Jan Henkins wrote:
2 > Hi there,
3 >
4 > Thanks for your page on alternative methods to install Gentoo.
5 >
6 > A niggly question:
7 >
8 > The machine I want to install Gentoo on is (don't laugh) a P133 with
9 > only 32Mb RAM. So far every time I boot via a GRUB disk using the kernel
10 > and initrd on the install CD (via TFTP from another Linux machine) I get
11 > kernel panics with the message that there is not enough RAM. OK, that
12 > would make sense, let's face it that this is as marginal as it gets.
13 > Unfortunately I'm stuck with the specs as it is, I cannot find other 72
14 > pin SIMMs to replace what I have to up the memory a bit.
15 >
16 > The question is, do you have any tips regarding making things happen,
17 > like a smaller kernel (monolithic) or smaller ramdisk image that might
18 > work? I cannot boot from CD with this particular machine, that's why the
19 > GRUB trick looked like it could save me (still could, I suppose). The
20 > commandline I used with the GRUB bootdisk follows the instructions
21 > closely, but not even playing with the ramdisk_size parameter do I get
22 > joy. Any thoughts/tips/flames would be welcome.
23
24 In case you cannot boot at all, try some other boot disk (maybe from another
25 distro). Next, before you do anything else, set up a big swap space. Gentoo
26 does run on my 16mb machine too
27
28 Paul
29
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31 Paul de Vrieze
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