Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:49:56 -0600 From: nathan <beemern@telecom.ksu.edu> To: 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: <3A0FFF94.AA1E1A9E@telecom.ksu.edu> References: <NEBBJOAHALDFDHJPBCLHCEIBCAAA.dutch@neo.rr.com> <20001113161552.L32175@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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
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