Subject: Re: Continuing problems with SS20 and 512Mb of Ram
To: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/08/2005 16:35:25
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
> Thanks, that kernel booted looking at the config it looks like a lot of
> the other sun options are commented out of the config. Was I correct in
> assuming that the GENERIC kernel config should have generated something
> that booted on my machine? If you looked at my config the only thing
> that I added was the NKMEMPAGES option but the kernel that I got was
> considerably larger:
>
> 2.0-RELEASE Sparc kernel -- 3.6Mb
> 2.0.2 Sparc kernel -- 3.6Mb
> 2.0-STABLE kernel -- 2.1Mb
> My KAMINO config kernel -- 6.0Mb
>
> Hopefully this will work.
Sounds like your kernel was built without optimisations - that
tends to result in a much larger kernel which in the case of
sparc will not boot.
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