Out of memory error installing to old Pentium laptop
by A8ksh4 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6PZYH)
I have a Toshiba 440 CDX laptop with an original Pentium CPU and 80MB of ram. It doesn't have a working floppy drive and no cdrom drive, so I'm attempting to start the install from the HDD by prepping needed files and stuff on the HDD on another laptop. And I'm referencing this page: https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sl...stall_from_hdd
These are the grub menu entries that I've tried so far:
Code: menuentry "Slack 15 DVD Install" {
insmod loopback
insmod iso9660
set isofile="/slackware-15.0-install-dvd.iso"
loopback loop (hd0,msdos1)$isofile
linux (loop)/kernels/huge.s/bzImage load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s
initrd (loop)/isolinux/initrd.img
}
menuentry "Slack 15 local ISO Extracted Install" {
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
linux /ISO/kernels/huge.s/bzImage load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s
initrd /ISO/isolinux/initrd.img
}Both of these have the same result:
Code:error: out of memory.
Press any key to continue...
Wrong EFI loader signature.
early console in extract_kernel
input_data: 0x0204d0ae
intup_len: 0x00913bb4
output: ...
output_len: ...
kernel_total_size
Physical KASLR using RDTSC...
Decompressing Linux...And it goes on to make a bunch more errors afterward.
I'v also tried doing a complete install in a VM with similar CPU capability set, but didn't have the option to use a virtual IDE controller to match the laptop. It sort of boots but never gives me a prompt and has errors... I used a similar strategy with an old Debian build and it worked flawlessly.
Anyway, if anyone has ideas on how to get this install working, I'm looking forward to finding a modern-ish linux build that still gets security patches and stuff, and learning something about Slackware! (This is my first try with Slackware)
These are the grub menu entries that I've tried so far:
Code: menuentry "Slack 15 DVD Install" {
insmod loopback
insmod iso9660
set isofile="/slackware-15.0-install-dvd.iso"
loopback loop (hd0,msdos1)$isofile
linux (loop)/kernels/huge.s/bzImage load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s
initrd (loop)/isolinux/initrd.img
}
menuentry "Slack 15 local ISO Extracted Install" {
insmod gzio
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
linux /ISO/kernels/huge.s/bzImage load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 rw printk.time=0 SLACK_KERNEL=huge.s
initrd /ISO/isolinux/initrd.img
}Both of these have the same result:
Code:error: out of memory.
Press any key to continue...
Wrong EFI loader signature.
early console in extract_kernel
input_data: 0x0204d0ae
intup_len: 0x00913bb4
output: ...
output_len: ...
kernel_total_size
Physical KASLR using RDTSC...
Decompressing Linux...And it goes on to make a bunch more errors afterward.
I'v also tried doing a complete install in a VM with similar CPU capability set, but didn't have the option to use a virtual IDE controller to match the laptop. It sort of boots but never gives me a prompt and has errors... I used a similar strategy with an old Debian build and it worked flawlessly.
Anyway, if anyone has ideas on how to get this install working, I'm looking forward to finding a modern-ish linux build that still gets security patches and stuff, and learning something about Slackware! (This is my first try with Slackware)