[arch-releng] Latest ArchISO breaks 512MB RAM barrier
Hello all, Simply I wanted to tell you that the latest ArchISO image needs more than 512MB of RAM to boot. If you try to boot it in a machine (you can test with VirtualBox) with 512MB of ram you give a "Initramfs unpacking failed: write error" after Probing EDD line. Next in "Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_202005' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt' cannot mount and fallbacks to interactive prompt. I don't know if this is intentional or not. But I think that if the new ISOs need more than 512 MB or RAM to boot, maybe it is a good idea to publish a notice in Arch Linux web page. Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me
On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 19:49, Óscar García Amor via arch-releng < arch-releng@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hello all,
Simply I wanted to tell you that the latest ArchISO image needs more than 512MB of RAM to boot. If you try to boot it in a machine (you can test with VirtualBox) with 512MB of ram you give a "Initramfs unpacking failed: write error" after Probing EDD line. Next in "Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_202005' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt' cannot mount and fallbacks to interactive prompt.
I don't know if this is intentional or not. But I think that if the new ISOs need more than 512 MB or RAM to boot, maybe it is a good idea to publish a notice in Arch Linux web page.
Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me
Welp, Arch is now officially bloated. :(
01.05.2020 21:02, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-releng пишет:
On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 19:49, Óscar García Amor via arch-releng < arch-releng@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hello all,
Simply I wanted to tell you that the latest ArchISO image needs more than 512MB of RAM to boot. If you try to boot it in a machine (you can test with VirtualBox) with 512MB of ram you give a "Initramfs unpacking failed: write error" after Probing EDD line. Next in "Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_202005' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt' cannot mount and fallbacks to interactive prompt.
I don't know if this is intentional or not. But I think that if the new ISOs need more than 512 MB or RAM to boot, maybe it is a good idea to publish a notice in Arch Linux web page.
Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me
Welp, Arch is now officially bloated. :(
the situation will get worse when accessibility patches will be included. sorry about that. ☺ -- Sincerely, Alexander.
On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 20:14, Alexander Epaneshnikov via arch-releng < arch-releng@archlinux.org> wrote:
01.05.2020 21:02, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-releng пишет:
On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 19:49, Óscar García Amor via arch-releng < arch-releng@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hello all,
Simply I wanted to tell you that the latest ArchISO image needs more than 512MB of RAM to boot. If you try to boot it in a machine (you can test with VirtualBox) with 512MB of ram you give a "Initramfs unpacking failed: write error" after Probing EDD line. Next in "Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_202005' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt' cannot mount and fallbacks to interactive prompt.
I don't know if this is intentional or not. But I think that if the new ISOs need more than 512 MB or RAM to boot, maybe it is a good idea to publish a notice in Arch Linux web page.
Greetings. -- Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org | http://ogarcia.me
Welp, Arch is now officially bloated. :(
the situation will get worse when accessibility patches will be included. sorry about that. ☺ -- Sincerely, Alexander.
Accessibility is great. Sadly we are all pretty clueless about it and this is why adding that stuff takes so long. Accessibility isn't bloat. :)
01.05.2020 22:44, Sven-Hendrik Haase пишет:
On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 20:14, Alexander Epaneshnikov via arch-releng <arch-releng@archlinux.org <mailto:arch-releng@archlinux.org>> wrote:
01.05.2020 21:02, Sven-Hendrik Haase via arch-releng пишет: > On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 19:49, Óscar García Amor via arch-releng < > arch-releng@archlinux.org <mailto:arch-releng@archlinux.org>> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Simply I wanted to tell you that the latest ArchISO image needs more >> than 512MB of RAM to boot. If you try to boot it in a machine (you can >> test with VirtualBox) with 512MB of ram you give a "Initramfs >> unpacking failed: write error" after Probing EDD line. Next in >> "Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_202005' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt' >> cannot mount and fallbacks to interactive prompt. >> >> I don't know if this is intentional or not. But I think that if the >> new ISOs need more than 512 MB or RAM to boot, maybe it is a good idea >> to publish a notice in Arch Linux web page. >> >> Greetings. >> -- >> Óscar García Amor | ogarcia at moire.org <http://moire.org> | http://ogarcia.me > > Welp, Arch is now officially bloated. :(
the situation will get worse when accessibility patches will be included. sorry about that. ☺ -- Sincerely, Alexander.
Accessibility is great. Sadly we are all pretty clueless about it and this is why adding that stuff takes so long. Accessibility isn't bloat. :)
your words are music for my ears. as for time. I understand. ArchLinux has become my home. and I want this to happen for a larger number of blind people. -- Sincerely, Alexander.
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Alexander Epaneshnikov
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Sven-Hendrik Haase
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Óscar García Amor