Bug 7155

Summary:	Compaq Presario 1640 32MB RAM Laptop won't boot install iso
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	J Derek Wilson <jdwilso2>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	jdwilso2, latexer, lostlogic, mholzer, mjc, styx
Priority:	High
Version:	1.2
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description J Derek Wilson 2002-08-28 06:18:43 UTC

I have a Compaq Presario 1640 Laptop with 32Mb of RAM, 4GB hd, 24x CD.
While attempting to boot from the install cd, my computer consistantly locks up
when trying to mount the root filesystem. It checks different file system types
and I get a kernel panic each time as no filesystem is found. I can specify 
another root and it finds it perfectly, but it panics because it can't find init
... I am fairly certain that the problem stems from the fact that I only have 32MB
of RAM and the boot scripts on the CD are attpempting to create 16 8Mb ramdisks
and its not exactly working correclty. I don't know enough about the gentoo boot
process to know if my guess is right. But I also attempted to use kernel params
on boot to change the size of the ramdisks but that didn't solve this issue.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-09-09 15:28:48 UTC

A minimum of 64MB is required for install from LiveCD.

Comment 2 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-19 06:29:14 UTC

see comment #1