Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 2003 10:16:50 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.20 on a 4 MB Laptop |
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On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:01:55PM +0200, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > I currently try installing Linux on an old IBM Laptop. (IBM Thinkpad 340, > 486SLC 25/50 from 1994). The laptop only has 4 MB RAM, so I installed a > simple Linux distribution on a better computer, recompiled Linux 2.4.20 and > stripped out everything I could (with menuconfig): No networking. FPU > emulation. The only "luxury" I left is "ext3" - perhaps this uses a lot of > memory? > Well - anyway, the kernel boots but right stops after: > INIT: Entering runlevel:3 > The next line is: > INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > ... > That's it. > What I want to know is if this happens just because of the low memory (4MB) or > if there is another reason for this behaviour. > What do you think: What are the minimum requirements for Linux on such a > laptop (no X, of course, very simple setup): 8MB, 12MB?
Try using init=/bin/sh, doing swapon manually, and then exec /sbin/init
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