V Út, 03. 08. 2004 v 14:20, Stephen R Marenka píše: > > Could please someone with Atari (and their own working kernel) give it a > > try and tell me if the d-i works or not. I tried several last builds but > > it doesn't do anything. I am also wondering if it's OK that the ramdisk > > file of Sarge's d-i is only 4 MB large - Woody has 7 MB file (and > > works). > > The 2.4-based ramdisks use shmfs (and pivot_root) for the actual > installation root. It comes out to be about 12MB.
Hmmm. In your daily/atari folder there is just floppy-root.img.gz of size 1.2 MB. When this is unpacked it's a HD floppy image and when that one is unpacked again (loop mount) and again (the file.gz found on the floppy) the resulting file size is slightly over 4 MB. Not sure what shmfs and pivot_root is but there is not 12 MB of data anywhere as far as I can see. Also, I managed to get the woody install working when I replaced the root=/dev/ram with a physical device and so skipped the part where the root is loaded to ramdisk and unpacked there. Now is the shmfs/pivot_root supposed be fooled by the same trick (root=/dev/hdx) or won't this work at all? > Would it help if I built a kernel using your proposed patch? Chris already built the kernel and everybody should test it (I'll do that when I get home tonight). But this is not a kernel question but rather problem of small RAM again. I have just 4 MB of RAM, 2 of it consumes the kernel. There are about 2 MB left. Not enough for any ramdisk. I need a way of skipping the ramdisk phase... When the kernel is running there are 64 MB of FastRAM available so it's OK, I just need to get the d-i running without the ramdisk somehow. Petr
