Kernel cannot fit in Memory.

[Shishir Jha]

Well the problem is that even with the NBD enabled, the computer goes into
(thin clients) go into error state saying that there memory is not large
enough to hold the initial kernel image. Even adding 32 Mb to total it to 64
Mb has been no success. Today I went forward and added another 32  Mb in the
last of 3 slots and totalled it to 96 MB and it finally booted properly. But
the question remains, why does it need so much of RAM, when it should boot
with 32 MB of RAM, or is it PXE error which causing the memory problem ??

On 8/29/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Shishir Jha wrote:
>
> > Having installed K12LTSP successfully many labs, this time around I
> shifted
> > my attention to edubuntu, I installed edubuntu 7.04 well in a PIV 3.06Ghz,
> > 2GB Ram, server and for trial booted off my laptop, which is pretty new
> with
> > Pentium M processor. But the strange thing is when I wanted to boot off,
> a
> > thin client with 32MB Ram, it showed me the error "Kernel Cannot fit in
> > Memory" when the kernel is being loaded in the client. Further I added
> > another 32MB Ram and still the same error. The problem is obvious that
> the
> > Kernel cannot fit in the RAM, but I had read and even talked in the IRC
> and
> > was told that people have booted off clients with 32MB Ram. Is something
> > else wrong, any help could be highly appreciated.
>
> I would have doubted 32MB RAM would be enough for a thin client, but I'd
> have thought it would be enough for just the kernel.  This thread on the
> LTSP mailing list seems like it might be relevant.
>
> http://riverdale.k12.or.us/mailarchives/k12ltspdig/960.html
>
> The documentation doesn't seem to actually quote a specific amount of RAM,
> though I would imagine to get 32MB working well you'd at least need nbd
> swap working.  It should still be able to load the kernel though.
>
> http://doc.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/handbook/C/server-hw.html#id2751308
>
> Gavin
>
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Shishir Jha
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