Re: 1.4.0 BETA problems: Memory

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 03:09:07PM +0200, Michael Boehnisch wrote:
> I finally found the time to install NetBSD 1.4.0Beta and encountered
> some problems:
> 
> - MMU panic with boot option -n2
> 
>   I have a somewhat fragmented memory setup in my A4000:
> 
>   Cyberstorm PPC/68060 with 80MB RAM (8MB reserved by PPC)
>   Fastlane Z3          with 24MB RAM
>   Base memory               16MB RAM fast, 2MB chip
> 
>   When Bootblock-booting with option -n2, the kernal starts fine
>   but I end up in the kernel debugger with the first few commands
>   entered after entering single user mode, e.g. trying to extract
>   a tar archive is a safe candidate.  The error message printed is
>   "MMU panic".
> 
>   With options -n1 or -n0 I have not suffered this problem yet.

Hm, so its an reoccurence of the bigmemory problem, shifted to higher values,
I guess.

Please:
        

binpatch -s _Sysptsize /netbsd (should be 4)
binpatch -s _Sysptsize -r 5 /netbsd (or a bit higher. But I dont expect more
than 8 is necessary)

Then reboot.

Regards,
        -is