Subject: Repost: panic: malloc: out of space in kmem_map
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org, netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Eric Fox <eric@fox.phoenix.az.us>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/19/1998 03:40:18
REPOST:
On 16-Oct-98 Eric Fox wrote:
> 
> I'm attempting to install NetBSD on a i386 w/Pentium-90 & 24Meg RAM ... 
> 
> I've dl'd the boot disk image from
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.3.2/i386/installation/floppy/boot.fs
> and dd'd it to a diskette.
> 
> When I boot of the install diskette I end up with the following error:
> 
>         panic: malloc: out of space in kmem_map
>         
>         The operating system has halted.
>         Please press any key to reboot.
> 

I've checked through the mail-lists, but the only similar problems I've been
able to come up were for a pmax issue which required, naturally enough, a
new kernel to be built.  The question is, why am I getting this out of the
GENERIC install kernel?

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