On 11/04/2010 06:10 PM, David Given wrote:
Actually, I did that! DamnSmallLinux CDs are *awesome*. The MBR loads, the screen goes black, and it hangs --- no diagnostics or anything. I'll try with qemu to see whether I can reproduce this behaviour with a restricted-memory image.
I tried it here and of course it didn't boot in Qemu after setting the limit to 48megs. Booted again with 512 and enabled the swapfile in Preferences -> VirtualMemory, then set it back to 48 and voila, it at least gave me the blue background and the mouse cursor which I can move. The VM is obviously still working but takes ages to get to a useful state I guess.
Unfortunately I don't have KVM support here and not the time to wait tonight but maybe you can use that hint. ;)
Best, -k