Re: Minimum RAM for ELKS?
Dave Mills <[email protected]>
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Tom McCabe wrote: > > --- Vikas Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Dave >> Use Bochs emulator. Set the RAM to how much ever >> your target machine >> has, and use an elks image and see if it works. iF >> it works on this >> setting, it should work on your target hardware as >> well. >> >> Vikas > > I remember there being an option in the ELKS > configuration about how many 64 KB memory pages were > necessary, and the minimum was 4 (256 KB). Also, I've > noticed that even on a modern system with the full 640 > KB possible, the ash and rc shells don't run (if sash > isn't linked to /bin/sh, it crashes on bootup). Thanks Vikas & Tom. I'll give the bochs idea a try. I'm really just trying to get the smallest kernel running that I can. cheers, Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html