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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, 19 Mar 2010 09:36:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ecada1e1003190136o347809b3s4f8d225d47b6c26d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bbe8ddcec2605456c48f276674cf9ce@coraid.com>

2010/3/12 erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>:
>> How do other operating systems detect the available RAM? Could Plan 9
>> use the same method?
>
> plan 9 uses the same methods for detecting ram
> everyone else does.  perhaps we trust bios too much,
> but 8mb isn't impossible, either.
>
> try
>        a *noe820scan=1
> at the 9load menu prompt.
>
> - erik
>
>

Hi,

I tried it and didnt work, I got the same output. Maybe its time to
trust BIOS less... :(

Greetings: Bela



  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-19  8:36 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
2010-03-12 16:37     ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-19  8:36       ` Bela Valek [this message]
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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