Subject: Re: Continuing problems with SS20 and 512Mb of Ram
To: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/08/2005 16:35:25
On Sun, 8 May 2005, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:

> Thanks, that kernel booted looking at the config it looks like a lot of
> the other sun options are commented out of the config. Was I correct in
> assuming that the GENERIC kernel config should have generated something
> that booted on my machine? If you looked at my config the only thing
> that I added was the NKMEMPAGES option but the kernel that I got was
> considerably larger:
>
>      2.0-RELEASE Sparc kernel -- 3.6Mb
>      2.0.2 Sparc kernel       -- 3.6Mb
>      2.0-STABLE kernel        -- 2.1Mb
>      My KAMINO config kernel  -- 6.0Mb
>
> Hopefully this will work.

 	Sounds like your kernel was built without optimisations - that
 	tends to result in a much larger kernel which in the case of
 	sparc will not boot.

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