Re: Hurd doesn't boot with 1024 Mb RAM

[James A Morrison]

   Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 01:41:44 +0100
   From: Gerardo Pirla Diaz <gpdiaz@bellmonte.com>
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   Hi James,

   First, many thanks for your help.

   The problem was the ammount of memory, but uppermem doesn't work !!!

   I've tried:

           uppermem=131072
           root (hd1,1)
           kernel .............

   And it causes a kernel panic !!!

 A little output here would be nice.  I'm not sure how grub treats the '='
sign, but the documentation seems to suggest it should be "uppermem 131072".

   Pulling out a ram stick, GNU/Hurd boots OK !!!

   I've tried the grubs uppermem parameter with an L4/Fiasco kernel,
   and grub works fine (is documented L4/Fiasco that doesn't boot
   with more than 256 Mb)

 Please ask on l4-hurd@gnu.org for information on L4 and Fiasco.

   Maybe a mach/hurd BUG ??

 There are many bugs in GNU Mach and in the Hurd, but we don't have enough
information so far to tell.

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     Gerardo Pirla Diaz

James A. Morrison