On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 05:46:31PM +0100, Dieter Faulbaum wrote: > > Hello, > > I try to install a 2.2-system on such a laptop (a 486DX2 with 8MB > memory) but get thesh error messages after loading the root.bin > disc (the last lines several times): > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 148K freed > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for kswapd > > > Can anyone tell me what can be wrong? I use the rescue.bin disc from > safe. Are 8MB not enough for this version? I'm pretty damn sure that this is only a debug message left over. I had this, too, with certain 2.2.x kernels.
AFAICT this is only informative, not critical. But OTOH ICBW :-) Andreas Mohr