Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:31:53 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "nathan" <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Adam Kress" <dutch@neo.rr.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Not enough memory to boot (was: Old timer PC) Message-ID: <019601c04eac$38303a00$0200000a@vladsempire.net> References: <NEBBJOAHALDFDHJPBCLHCEIBCAAA.dutch@neo.rr.com> <20001113161552.L32175@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3A0FFF94.AA1E1A9E@telecom.ksu.edu>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "nathan" <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Adam Kress" <dutch@neo.rr.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:49 AM Subject: Re: Not enough memory to boot (was: Old timer PC) I have a 386sx16 (supposedly the lowest performance cpu that Freebsd will run on) with 4 megs of ram that runs FBSD 2.1.5 for mostly nostalgic reasons....it is painful to behold. I accidentally started X one day, and that made my nose bleed for two days straight. For a while I had 8 megs of ram in the box and it ran a little better, but not much. Maybe things are different down where you are, but in the last two weeks I've collected 5 or 6 pentium systems that nobody wanted anymore....maybe you should look into that before you try to upgrade your RAM. If you do want to upgrade that machine, I have a large supply of 4meg 30 pin SIMMs that I am willing to part with for an exhorbant price. (If you are lucky your 386 will have 8 simm slots that you can fill with 1meg simms, if it only has 4 slots, then your only upgrade path is 4meg 30 pin simms....expensive and hard to find at best.) Josh (Legacy Man) > I did a similar install with the target machine being a 386 laptop with 4 megs of > ram and 105 Mb hd. > Its been working for a few months now with 4.1 on it (: > > As I recall, the mem limits were 4megs of ram to run, and 5+ to install. > that's why i ended up isntalling on a diff machine with the laptop harddrive in > it, then moving back. > > To get to my advice on this: > > **Check your kernel config.** I ran into a similar problem (w/o the swap error > tho?) > and fixed it by making sure my kernel was setup for the specific 386 devices. > I don't know if you're using GENERIC or not, but i'd make a custom kernel for > your 386. > and try it out.. it some time, a few reconfigs, and about 3 pots o coffee b4 i > got it going. > > goodluck > nathan > > Greg Lehey wrote: > > > On Sunday, 12 November 2000 at 22:52:52 -0600, Adam Kress wrote: > > > Hi, > > > got a small question, I have a machine here that is an OLD 386 with 4 megs > > > of ram. I took a 500 meg hard drive and installed freeBSD-3.4-RELEASE on > > > that drive while it was in another machine. the machine I installed it on is > > > a PIII 450 with 352 megs of ram. I set up the file system in it like so: > > > 64 megs as a swap partition > > > 436 as the / (root) partition > > > or slices, it booted fine in the machine that I installed it on. When I put > > > the drive in the OLD machine it gets to the normal boot process till this > > > error comes up: > > > changing root device to wd0s1a > > > pid5 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > > > > *sigh* Looks like we have a race condition with low memory situation. > > > > > from there it is stopped. I'm currently searching for parameters to pass to > > > boot, but I'm not having any luck. I'm hoping someone might be able to help. > > > I'm going to see if I can jam anymore ram in it later. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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