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lapsio

Member

From: Warsaw

Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 50

Arch LiveCD 512mb RAM required?

Today I tried to boot up Arch in VirtualBox with default 256mb of RAM assigned however all I got was this:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/44131220/Virtu … _29_48.png

Unable to find medium, fails to boot. After bumping RAM to 512mb everything works correctly. I find it quite funny because error doesn't really seem to suggest RAM issue and I thought Arch LiveCD is really lightweight. Is it caused by CoW nature of LiveCD filesystem thus increased RAM requirements?

Mod edit (x33a): Please don't post oversized images -> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

Last edited by x33a (2016-12-30 05:53:10)

fsckd

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Registered: 2009-06-15

Posts: 4,173

Re: Arch LiveCD 512mb RAM required?

x86_64 requires 512 MB as said in the installation guide. The squashfs fills the RAM and that's why it takes so much. Namarrgon tells me the actual mimum to boot is around 270 MB but 512 is a nice round number which gives some leeway to do things beyond booting.

Moving from Arch Discussion to Installation.

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