Hi Dave,
On 04/02/09 00:12, Dave Miner wrote: > This note is just an early warning of changes that are expected to > arrive in build 111a, in order to fix > > 6440 Build 106 installer fails to start in 512 MB environment > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=6440 > > Briefly, we're splitting the boot archive for the live CD into > separate 32- and 64-bit archives, which buys back a large chunk of > memory, sufficient to overcome the bloat that's crept in since 2008.11. With respect to separating boot archives, I am thinking if there might be a case when both might be needed during early stage of boot process. I am referring to 'min_mem64' GRUB option - it boots kernel in 32-bit mode even on 64-bit capable machines if there is not sufficient amount of memory (I think 1GB is required for LiveCD), since 32-bit kernel is less memory hungry. I am not sure what is the order of related actions GRUB takes, so this might not be issue for this fix - just wanted to bring this up in order to be sure. Thank you, Jan
