> I've finally upgraded the memory size of my SE/30 from
> 8 MB to 20 MB. The MacOS reports 20 MB of physical RAM
> and is quite happy with them; just NetBSD (Generic#5) 
> reports during the boot process 8MB.

I'm running my SE/30 with 20M of RAM without any problem.  My guess is
that you have "RAM auto-sizing" (or something similar) check box NOT
checked.  It crossed my mind that you didn't set 32-bit address mode,
but if that were the case, it'd give you a different error even if the
RAM size was 8M.

ken