Subject: Re: installing netbsd 1.3
To: None <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 06/24/1998 18:55:12
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 04:12:41PM +0200, Bernd Sieker wrote:
> On 23.06.98, 22:22:27, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> >
> > Get NetBSD-1.3.2, or rip out 64 MB of your RAM for the time being.
> >
> > NetBSD-1.3.2 has a bugfix for most of the "big Amiga" problem, and a
> > workaround for the rest of it.
>
> The workaround seems to be building a kernel with LIMITMEM to 64MB.
>
> If I don't, the kernel still hangs at boot when it finds either 80
> (loadbsd without -n option) or 96 MB (with -n2) on the WarpEngine4040.
>
> Using a LIMITMEM kernel works fine and very stable, but leaves 32MB
> unused.
Yes. I'm very sorry about that, but there seems still to be an unfound
problem in the Amiga pmap.c.
Regards,
Ignatios