Subject: Re: Non-bootable CDs (NetBSD 1.6)
To: None <jjc@honors.montana.edu>
From: Andreas K?h?ri <ak@freeshell.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/18/2002 16:18:29
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:05:51PM -0600, Josh Cogliati wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 02:05:11PM +1300, Andreas K?h?ri wrote:
> > Good day,
> > 
> > I'm having the exact same problem as Josh Cogliati had
> > in September [1] but with a 64Mb machine (166MHz Digital
> > Celebris FX-2).  The problem boils down to a kernel panic
> > in some UVM code (causing a immediate reboot).  Copy from
> > Josh's post:
> > 
> > Warning: Can't allocate memory segment 0x100000/0xf00000/0x1 from IOMEM Extent map.
> > Panic: uvm_page_physload: start >= end
> For those of you who are curious, I installed netbsd 1.4.2, and then 
> installed the 1.6 kernel, and it booted with that fine.  Any idea what
> could fail with the boot disks, but not with the kernel?  (I did not 
> install anything on the 1.4.2 system, except the new kernel.)

Which 1.6 kernel?  I've tried booting my 1.5.2 system from all
the 1.6 INSTALL and GENERIC kernels without success.


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Andreas Kähäri
Bioinformatics and Unix System Support
Dunedin & Mosgiel, Otago, New Zealand
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