Presumably you could remove part of the RAM on some machines to
	avoid the problem? :)

	Adding this (and the shift key workaround) to the NetBSD/macppc
	FAQ pag under a 'Common Problems' section, which should show up
	soon at
	http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/faq.html

	If anyone has any additions/changes - let us know!

		David/absolute

                      Neighbours should be one of:
                a) Understanding   b) Distant   c) Deaf

On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Louis Madon wrote:

> Hi Matt,
> 
> >panic: startup: cannot allocate VM for buffers
> >Stopped in at 0x230154:   lwz r0, r1, 0x14
> >db>
> 
> This is the same problem I've had on my iMac. The problem occurs when the
> kernel tries to allocate virtual memory for the systems buffer cache. It
> appears that on machines with lots of ram installed, the kernel is running
> out of *something* (possibly tables entries - I'm not sure exactly - I
> didn't delve deep enough) and it fails what should be an acceptable
> allocation request.  You can work around the issue by adding an "options
> bufpages=xxx" entry to the kernel config to specify a smaller buffer cache.
> The MD version of the kernel already has such an option in its config
> (options bufpages=800) which is why it doesn't have the problem.
> 
> Regards,
> Louis.
>