--- Vikas Kumar <walburn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey Dave > Use Bochs emulator. Set the RAM to how much ever > your target machine > has, and use an elks image and see if it works. iF > it works on this > setting, it should work on your target hardware as > well. > > Vikas I remember there being an option in the ELKS configuration about how many 64 KB memory pages were necessary, and the minimum was 4 (256 KB). Also, I've noticed that even on a modern system with the full 640 KB possible, the ash and rc shells don't run (if sash isn't linked to /bin/sh, it crashes on bootup). > > On 5/15/06, Dave Mills <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm planning to fiddle with ELKS on an 8086 system > at some time in the > > near future. The system has very minimal RAM > (~200k). Does anyone have > > any idea (or even better, experience) about ELKS > in such a low RAM > > configuration? I realise that I'll probably not > get much more than the > > kernel booting, as other software running will > require more RAM than I have. > > > > Getting to the stage where ELKS boots and my > application prints "I'm > > alive!" over the serial port is my first target. > > > > cheers, > > Dave > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > -- > Capitalization is the difference between "I had to > help my uncle Jack > off a horse.." and "I had to help my uncle jack off > a horse.." > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
