From: Bela Valek <bvalek2@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] out of physical memory; no swap configured
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:06:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ecada1e1003120306n3caee8a5t95af19b1b72605c7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1dbeb7d3bc1673ba6177ab232851fd6b@ladd.quanstro.net>
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2010/2/27 erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> On Sat Feb 27 06:49:47 EST 2010, bvalek2@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used Erik's 9atoms.iso to install Plan 9. When its booting, after
>> its asking for root partition and username, I get the error message
>> repeated: "out of physical memory; no swap configured". Why, oh why?
>
> memory scan went sideways due to broken bios? the memory
> messages printed during startup should be helpful.
>
> - erik
>
>
I attached a screenshot (sic!). You can see that Plan 9 found only 8
Megs of RAM, also there is the reflection of my cousin and me, sorry
for the fingerprints :)
How do other operating systems detect the available RAM? Could Plan 9
use the same method?
Also, I didnt install Venti.
Greetings: Bela
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-12 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-27 11:47 Bela Valek
2010-02-27 16:28 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-12 11:06 ` Bela Valek [this message]
2010-03-12 16:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-19 8:36 ` Bela Valek
2010-03-19 14:27 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-19 14:30 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-01 22:53 ` Georg Lehner
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