Hello! On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:41:19PM -0400, Roland J Rankin Jr wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 23:23 +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 06:00:42PM -0400, Roland J Rankin Jr wrote: > > > I'm getting a > > > gnu mach 1.3 > > > panic alloc pci memory failed > > > > Am I guessing correctly that you have 1 GiB of ram or more? > > Yes you are correct. > I have 1.5 gig. > I think I've resolved to installing it on a lesser machine that just > became available, while I am trying to figure it out. > > If that gives me problems and tackle the bigger box after I understand > the mechanics a bit better. You could also (on the box with 1.5 GiB of ram) use a GRUB command to limit the amount of memory GNU Mach will see. (Limit it to something around 700 MiB.) The command is called `uppermem', I think. Or you can wait for the next upload of the Debian gnumach package, which will then have this conflicting patch removed. > > There is a conflict between a patch that is in the Debian gnumach package > > and a patch that was installed into the main source tree to make systems > > with somewhere below 1 GiB of ram and more boot at all. See > > <http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?4818#comment3>. Debian people: perhaps > > this patch should be removed from the Debian package for now? > > I noticed you added debian-hurd to the reply list. I tried to, but the <debian-hurd@gnu.org> redirection doesn't seem to work anymore. > I hope that means that your patch question is for them It was, yes. Regards, Thomas
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