Subject: Intermittent inability to boot
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Scott M. Blackman <blackmsm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/07/1997 13:54:16
I have successfully installed MacBSD 1.2, GENERIC-9 kernel, on my
Powerbook 160 with 4MB RAM, 40MB SCSI hd, and serial console, of course.
Things are working just fine except for this:

Intermittently the boot process stops after mounting root, and says it
ran out of memory:

...normal bootup
root on sd1a swap on sd1b
sd1: mode sense (4) returned nonsense; using fictitious geometry
panic: allocbuf: buffer larger than MAXBSIZE requested
Stopped at _Debugger +0x6: unlk  a6
db>

at which point I either hit "c" or "call boot" to give up.

This seems to be independent of the memory I allocate to the Booter 1.9.4.
I'm running System 7.1 from the Disk Tools disk and Booter 1.9.4 renamed to
"Finder" (change type to FNDR/MACS) to save memory during bootup.

I was bearing with it, but recently it's doing it every time and I can't
get into MacBSD.  Any suggestions???

Thanks
Scott Blackman
blackmsm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu