Googulator

Also, we need to support a mode where rootfs.py gathers a copy of all files locally, and then spawns its own server for the bootstrap machine to download from. This...

> What is the benefit of this over, say, an `--external-sources` mode? Let's suppose that we had support for splitting the set of distfiles across multiple disks if that was...

Known issue, the currently used TCC versions only support x86 properly. Support for AMD64 and other architectures is a post-1.0 goal. Leaving this open to track this issue.

3GB RAM is sufficient, if you use swap (-qs 4G option), or limit parallelism to 1 core (-c 1 option).

Can you boot a regular Linux kernel on those machines, and quote the "e820" lines from dmesg? I suspect you might have a discontiguous memory map, sometimes seen on UEFI...

Relevant part: ``` [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009e7ff] usable [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009e800-0x000000000009ffff] reserved [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000e0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820:...

> There’s no Linux boot loader in the live bootstrap so you can’t go directly back into the environment if you reboot. The final system is still there in the...

I suggest adding a GitHub CI workflow using the -w option. Also, mind the Python linter.

Yes, that would be preferable.