Unbootable system here after usrmerge. It failed, so I booted into single mode to fix it, then booted and finished up the upgrade, then couldn't boot anything, kernel panic on sysv or systemd, can boot into ash shell but commands don't work

kernel panic complaining about libtinfo being too short?

Just booted LMDE 6 on a 3.2 kernel with command mem=72M single init=/usr/bin/ash and ran modprobe -r a lot then ran htop

3.97MiB used. Htop appears to be using around 1.5, so actual shell running neofetch may be just under 2.5MB???

Current lowest ever bookworm / LMDE 6 mate desktop memory usage is 32.5M

OK thanks so far, if I install apulse and remove pulsaudio, then moc/mocp plays without pulse, and sounds fine

BUT when I reinstall pulse, moc/mocp just goes back to launching pulse? I only want pulse at desktop level init 5 or lower level init when I choose to launch it. Otherwise, I just want moc/mocp to default to apulse.

* switches to ash weeb because it's lighter *

Will this fix the problem with mint icons not coming through to the notification area in mate and xfce for LMDE 5 and 6

How many times now have I held mint artwork from cindy or debbie?

Also, when I'm using a mint theme, can I please have a mint icon for my menus that come with the panel and are not mintmenu/matemenu?

You could temporarily send it to a tmpfs in ram, that way you can read your logs until you choose to power off, and if you run out of ram, you can visit them and delete as many GB of logram as you need.
This will keep unused ram locations warm and be more responsive than hdd logs.

Can you please also ask why 330+MB rather than around 188MB?

If some good folk would be happy to compile kernels for eee pc I'd be not only happy, my obsessively compelled to try them out on many eee, though I hesitate to say test.
Been enabling zram on a few eee, it seems to help, especially when torturing the fanless ones with cinnamon desktop and browser action. On the 4G / 630mhz single core the name of the game is no fan even in high summer, so ram ceiling isn't important, so the question is, does zram not increase overall cpu and/or ram usage?

If you have a 128gb ssd then I bet you don't have the bios boost partitions, but never fear, I have put them on drop box, you can copy one of them with gparted and easily recreate the other using gnome-disks, make the fat partition 513KB instead of 7.84MiB if you like!

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/koa3hdwa … 6wtxc&dl=0

Link changed to point to actual file >.<

Hey, tried out refracta, very nice system, eee pc nearly full with no desktop tho!

Just a question, why is the latest i386 kernel from there 330MB when the last 6.1... kernels were 188MB?
300+ is the size of the amd64 kernels, so are these i386 kernels being compiled with all amd64 bits included but unused or something or have they actually needed to double in size?
Where to find modern secure small i386 kernels???

Thankyou, I did copy over an existing inittab from a saved eee pc daedalus iso, this cured the 'no inittab' error, but then there is a 'no inittab.d' error.
Can't see inittab.d on any sysv system, so am stumped.
Is nobody worried that simply following the latest devuan migration instructions leads to a rather poorly system?

Debian 12.9 netinstall base.