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Booting Sequence Question - Puppy 4 Series
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john biles
 Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 1365 Location: Australia |
Hello Those who worked on Puppy 4.2.1's development, With the release of Legacy OS 4 Mini Users have discovered that some PC's with 256Mb's of Ram are trying to load Legacy OS 4 Mini (476Mb iso) in to RAM that is too small causing a "Kernel Panic Error" What should be happening is Legacy OS 4 Mini (Puppy 4.2.1 Base) should see the RAM is too small and run from the CD only. Now what has also been discovered is that for users with 128Mb of RAM only, Legacy OS 4 Mini does do as expected and runs from CD only. Select the option "noram" at boot up makes no difference. Logic says that as the iso started out around 125Mb's in size Developers set the load to RAM option based on this size. If any of you remember where this piece of code is and what lines to change, can you please reply to this post. Any advice would be appreciated. If you know but can't be bothered to post that's alright as well, LOL! As I've said before, see post http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76043 
_________________ Legacy OS 2 Released! Install me on a new! EXT2 Partition with 500Mb of swap and I'll be happy. 
Legacy OS 4 Released! Install to newer legacy hardware / early EeePC's  |
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Karl Godt
 Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 3845 Location: Kiel,Germany |
initrd.gz : "gunzip/zcat|cpio -d -i" it and look for the init script :
Just a guess ! (Why the kernel looks for /init in intrd but for /sbin/init normally is a riddle but accepted by me .) |
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ICPUG
Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1286 Location: UK |
The guess is correct! The kernel looks in initrd because initrd.gz is set as the initial ramdisk to boot. init, within initrd.gz,gets executed to do all the setup stuff Puppy needs. At the end of init a switch root is performed to setup the main file system from the layers of unionfs and Puppy is away! |
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