In message <20001005115150.A796@antioche.lip6.fr>, Manuel Bouyer writes:
>On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:32:43PM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
>> 
>> Perhaps the INSTALL kernel should try to detect when the machine has Not Enou
>gh
>> Memory and try to give some useful error and instructions rather than just
>> failing? [ i.e. give the user instructions on using the _TINY kernel ]
>
>If the machine reboot without message I fear the kernel won't be able to
>do much. Maybe the boot loader could ?

I don't see how that could work -- the boot loader shouldn't decide
based on the name of hte file, and there's no other way for the boot loader
to get capability information from the kernel.

I was hoping that the kernel could do this check before the point where
it failed.

--jhawk