[arch-releng] Latest ArchISO breaks 512MB RAM barrier

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On Fri, 1 May 2020 at 20:14, Alexander Epaneshnikov via arch-releng <
arch-releng at 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 at 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. :)