Re: Added Memory; Automatic Reboot

[Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>]

> 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?

I believe you can tell GRUB to lie about the amount of memory, and so
ignore your higher memory.  Mach as it stands needs to map all the physical
memory into 1GB of kernel virtual address space and leave a little space
over for virtual mappings.  I will fix this one of these days.