Justin R. Knierim wrote:
Petr Ovtchenkov wrote:
I just checked 6.1.1-4 iso on two really old (Pentium Classic 133 and
100 MHZ,
64 and 32M RAM) computers---the result is similar (stalling after
printing
'Starting init...').
That's not good. The 6.1.1-4 that I uploaded for syncing has the fix
that Jeremy Huntwork made for init.c. So apparently there is still a
bug or another unknown problem...
The machine with only 32MB won't be able to boot the LiveCD, last time
I checked just booting to the bash prompt on a p2 400 used 36MB memory.
Thanks for the report. I'll see what old bones I can dig up to try to
reproduce this error...
If that's related to insufficient memory, "linux mem=32M" at the boot
prompt should be sufficient to study this. But the fact is that I get
something very different with this approach: OOM messages on the screen,
and /sbin/hotplug gets killed.
My own suspect (backed by absolutely nothing) is that there is some
buffer overflow or memory corruption in isofs detection.
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