> >I recently aquired a couple of 8M SIMMs to increase my system's memory up
> >to 32M.  However, NetBSD 1.1B will not work now, and panics with a "ptdi:"
> >message right after "biomask, netmask, ttymask" when I boot with 32M
> >installed. 
> 
> Did you edit /usr/include/sys/param.h and increase MAXBSIZE, by any 
> chance? I got a "ptdi:" panic after upgrading from 16M to 48M, although 
> it happened after printing the "real mem  =" line. Recompiling a kernel 
> with MAXBSIZE set back down to the default 16384 fixed things for me...


Yes!  Give the man a cupie doll!  I increased MAXBSIZE, ironically enough,
to avoid panics when accessing my DOS partitions.  Reducing it from
MAXPHYS to 16384 fixed my 32M panics, but I'm back to "allocbuf: buffer
larger than MAXBSIZE requested" panics when accessing DOS partitions.
Hopefully a compromise can be found now...

Thanks for the solution!


Jeff Thieleke