>Number:         8425
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       System panics while loading, or shortly after loading the kernel
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 16 16:35:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Rob Ballantyne
>Organization:
Simon Fraser University
>Release:        macppc 1.4
>Environment:
can't get to 'uname -a' but it is a Macintosh PowerBook G3 233MHz,
160MB mem, external SCSI barracuda 4G drive.
>Description:
Kernel panics: Below is the last few lines from the console

NetBSD 1.4 (GENERIC) #0: Tue May 11 00:01:04 JST 1999
    tsubai@mint.iri.co.jp:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/GENERIC
CPU: 750 (Revision 202)
real mem = 167772160
panic: startup: cannot allocate VM for buffers
Stopped in  at 0x230154:        lwz r0, r1, 0x14,
db>

And then the console hangs...no keyboard input nothing except the 
CAPSLOCK light does turn on/off appropriatly.
>How-To-Repeat:
boot from openfirmware

boot /pci/mac-io/mesh/sd:0
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: