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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:58:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: putting MAXMEM option into 2.2.2 causes fatal trap 9
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002225816.26112X-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <342D8050.6878178@algroup.co.uk>

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On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Adam Laurie wrote:

> On a system that was otherwise happy, adding the 
> 
> option "MAXMEM=131072"
> 
> to the kernel config causes the above error during boot. The BIOS
> reports 131072K present, and I have disabled all shadowing. 
> 
> Any ideas?

Try setting it to 131071.

I think a trap 9 is a kernel attempt to map memory that doesn't exist.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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