Superfluous Sticks
I was hoping to get involved in Hurd development. Hmmm. I guess I could hack
the kernel. Or-- I could just shout "toy" and wait for somebody else.
I wonder.
-m
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 09:50 am, you wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:35:53AM -0800, Mike Warner wrote:
> > Had H2 working pretty well in 768MB. Pumped up the box to 1.5GB so I can
> > run a VmWare machine from Debian Gnu/Linux. Now, when I boot Hurd, it
> > reboots automatically in the early stages.
> >
> > What's the story here? Can I get around this or am I screwed?
>
> The GNU Mach kernel has a limitation on the amount of memory installed
> (that results from mapping it into the addressable memory space).
> This limit is not easily overcome, sorry.
>
> You can probably deactivate the upper memory by hacking your kernel, there
> was some discussion about this on one of the lists some time ago.
>
> Or you can send the superfluous sticks to a friendly Hurd developer short
> on memory :) [just kidding]
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
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