Re: port-mips/49903: Panic during installation on WorkPad Z50 (hpcmips) whilst uncompressing base.tgz

[Sevan Janiyan <sevan%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-mips/49903; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sevan Janiyan <sevan%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>
Cc: "gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost" <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: port-mips/49903: Panic during installation on WorkPad Z50 (hpcmips)
 whilst uncompressing base.tgz
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 10:58:24 +0100

 On 14/05/2015 13:06, David Brownlee wrote:
 > On 14 May 2015 at 11:57, Sevan Janiyan <sevan%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 >> On 14/05/2015 06:15, Martin Husemann wrote:
 >>> What is the panic message itself?
 >>>
 >>> You should be able to get it from the db> prompt with the "dmesg"
 >>> command.
 >>
 >> db> dmesg
 >> db_read_init: cannot find `msgbufenabled`
 >>
 >>> The earlier malloc errors are probably gone because sysinst now (if
 >>> possible) enables swap early on low memory machines.
 > 
 > Though the swap is set to kick in at less than 32M of memory. I would
 > think we could extend that to less than 64M if it helps this case...
 
 As I have a swap partition allocated on the CF card, I thought I'd try
 to active it before starting with the manual uncompression of base.tgz.
 I couldn't find a copy of swapon, is the swap activated by some other
 means or is it just not included in the hpcmips minirootfs?
 
 
 Sevan