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Date:      Sat, 19 Feb 2000 13:40:44 -0600
From:      Ted Spradley <tsprad@set.spradley.org>
To:        Yoriaki FUJIMORI <fujimori@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DigitalUnix4.0 and recent SRM on PC164LX 
Message-ID:  <200002191940.NAA88750@set.spradley.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Feb 2000 18:52:55 GMT." <200002190952.SAA09881@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp> 

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> A funny thing is that DU reboots the system in the middle of the
> installation--after writing 31 subsets or so to the hard disk drive,
> and then it hangs.  Just black console, and no vga output.
> Is this normal?  I want to know if recent SRMs are not compatible
> with Digital Unix 4.0 any longer.
> Moreover, the operating system CD cannot be read at all on all of
> PCs and workstations in my lab.

How much memory does the box have?  More than 256 Mbytes?  I had similar 
symptoms with a couple of boxes with 512M.  This saved me:

http://www.aspsys.com/docs/UNIXWorkaround.txt

Basically, "boot -flag I" and when it asks for kernel options type
 "vmunix memlimit=256".




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