Run in ram test results

Paul Gray <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Jan 2004 12:45:29 -0600 (CST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I pulled the first ISO from movealong with the runinram features
(lnx-bbc-i386-2004-01-04T06:00:37-0600.iso).  The image (67MB raw total,
65MB singularity) will load just fine on my systems with > 512MB of RAM,
but fails on systems with 64MB and 128M of ram (< 2x the base image).
The failure is due to out-of-space errors when copying the singularity or
lnx.img.

When the system is up-and-running, the core image has a ~94MB footprint in
ram, so it looks like there's at least a hard limit of
2-times-singularity-size just to load the system in ram.

Anyone with a system with 128M < SystemRam < 512M care to chime in on
success/failure on loading to ram?

To load the system to ram, use "<n> rir" at the boot prompt, where "<n>"
specifies the framebuffer mode. (You can also use "runinram" or "toram"
instead of "rir".)

I'll shoot for 2x the size of /proc/kcore as the pre-test condition for
sufficient amounts of available core memory before attempting to load to
ram.  I'd like to hear if it fails to load on any systems that meet this
requirement though.

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