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CNK:

--- Quote from: Rich on March 25, 2025, 09:11:29 AM ---Does your BIOS reserve any RAM, such as for video for example?

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When booted to a working Linux distro, dmesg shows 16384k available (16MB). It also says 408k "reserved" though I'm not sure if that's by the kernel or the hardware (I'd guess the kernel). More than 12.9MB left anyway. The laptop's manual says it has separate video memory (1MB).

I'd expect the kernel to handle running out of memory at that stage more gracefully anyway, since routines (such as in misc.c) allocate it in advance. The reboot still suggests an instruction set issue to me (the kernel itself can't print "illegal instruction" if the code to do that doesn't run).

Leee:
The "apps" browser...

Have I mentioned how much I like the new layout?  Having "Browse" hanging directly off of the "Apps" button instead of down one menu level doesn't sound like much of a change, but it's much easier to use.

CNK:
TC16 does boot on my Pentium 1 PC with 80MB RAM. I'll see if I can install more RAM in the 486 laptop to see whether CPU or RAM is the problem there.

Rich:
Hi CNK
See if this boot code eases memory pressure any:

--- Code: ---udev.children-max=1
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CNK:
Thanks Rich, but yes I've got that already along with a bunch of other options I thought might reduce RAM (I've tried without these too). I think the problem happens before most of the options will take effect since they're typically associated with initialisation messages in dmesg and this happens before the dmesg output even starts.

Looks like udev.children−max=1 doesn't take effect until udevd is started by /etc/init.d/tc-config, which is way later in the boot process.

I'll see what I can do towards upgrading RAM. The manual says 36MB max. but doesn't say how many RAM slots there are in the laptop or if they're standard 72pin SIMM type.

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