Subject: Re: Too much memory in VS3100?
To: Douglas Meade <inforum@umd5.umd.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/25/1999 12:13:53
The 'max 16MB netboot' problem gave a different failure mode
(the network interface just didn't work).
I'm netbooting a 24MB 3100/m38 without problem here (its trying to
build the 1.4.1 install sets as I type :)
Hmm.. You vould try pulling some memory to see if that helps.
What NetBSD version are you running?
David/absolute
-=- "I know its not the right thing, and I know its not the good thing" -=-
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Douglas Meade wrote:
> I've got another new toy, a Vaxstation 3100 M48, with TZ30 tape drive
> and RRD40 CD Drive. It has 32 Mb of ram, but no hard disks. I sort of
> successfully got it netbooted today into multiuser mode, but I run into
> the following problem. So far it's happened twice, once with trying
> to run gcc, the second time running top.
>
> It says to me:
> panic: Machine check
> syncing disks .... Trap: type 2, code 0, pc80000040a, psl 4080000
> panic: trap
> ?06 HLT INST
> PC = 800C18EA
>
> Now I remember reading in Brian's HOWTO about not being able to netboot
> with more than 16 Mb of RAM. Is this still the case, and could this
> be what's biting me, or should I be barking up another tree?
>
> Doug
>
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