Subject: Re: VM problem?
To: port-i386@NetBSD.ORG, Jorgen Pehrson <jp@spektr.ludvika.se>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/27/1998 15:51:18
Excerpts from netbsd: 27-Mar-98 VM problem? Jorgen Pehrson@spektr.lu (6595*)

> This machine has 48MB of RAM but the precompiled kernel only saw 16MB.
> I then added the kernel option "Realext_mem" and now the kernel sees all
> 48MB during boot. But doing a "cat /kern/physmem" gives 12191.

That's ok, "physmem" counts pages.

>  Now (with my new kernel) when I do a vmstat it says:
> No drives attached.
> time makes no sense; namelist must be wrong.
> 
> Iostat also says "No drives attached."
> 
> dmesg says "magic number incorrect".

That looks as the kernel in "/netbsd" is not what you
actually booted.

best regards
Matthias