Subject: Re: options BUFCACHE=20 causes boot freeze
To: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
From: John Franklin <franklin@elfie.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/19/2003 01:47:19
On Sunday, Jan 19, 2003, at 01:16 US/Eastern, Tom Vier wrote:
> if i add options BUFCACHE=3D20 to a working config, the kernel will =
not=20
> boot.
> it works fine on sgimips. there doesn't seem to be a pr for this issue=20=

> (at
> least, i couldn't find one). has anyone used BUFCACHE w/o any problem?

I've used it on a number of i386 machines.  How much memory does this=20
machine have?  With i386, if BUFCACHE causes more than 128M of memory=20
to be reserved, the machine doesn't boot.

jf
--=20
John Franklin
franklin@elfie.org
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