Re: [9fans] install "out of physical memory"

[Chuck Foreman <chuckf@arcor.de>]

Hi,

I'm going to try this swap enabler thing! Can somebody tell me where 
the "swap" program is
and the correct syntax. I suspect I either have to add it to the 
floppy or put it in a mountable/
executable place as proposed by Burton.
Once booted from the floppy ...could I remove the floppy and mount 
the CD.-ROM in its place?
I'll also be playing with the installer to see if I can't trick the 
graphics to work...

Any other tips ie  memory probing code ... etc would be helpful.

Thanks for all the feedback!!

Feeling a bit frustrated...



At 05:34 AM 9/18/2006, you wrote:
> > I found the plan9.ini on the floppy and added the kernelpercent=20...
> > it got up to 25% before
> > giving up!
>
> > I found a reference in the archives where another user speculated
> > about this error!
> > What do you think of the workaround?
>
>I've been chatting with Chuck offlist and it seems the he has the 
>same problem I had with the Compaq physical memory layout and the 
>memory probing code that's found in the kernel.  Although the 
>machine has 128M, the kernel can only find 16M and runs out during 
>the install.  It can't seem to boot from CD, but works fine from the 
>floppy...unfortunately the swap program isn't installed on the 
>floppy (but is on the CD), so I had to figure out a workaround to 
>enable swap to perofrm the install.
>
>Basically, I copied the swap program from the plan9 install cd to an 
>ext2 partition on the same machine, booted from the floppy, mounted 
>the partition and ran swap from there, which then allowed the 
>install to happen smoothly.  This was after the first out of memory 
>failure during the initial install, but the install partition had 
>already been prepared so you could just enable the swap created 
>during that initial failed install to allow for the second install 
>to work (simple isn't it ;-)
>
>I played with the memory probing code and I *think* I might have 
>gotten all my memory recognized by raising the upper address limit 
>that the probe routine went to.  This was a while back, but I did 
>run plan9 exclusively as my only OS on that machine for about 3 
>months, and I do remember solving a number of problems (but 
>unforunately didn't have much net access so I couldn't write about 
>them at the time).
>
>I put a little bit of a request during my solution (the reference 
>that Chuck posted) to put the swap program on the install floppy (if 
>space permits), but I guess that was missed.  Maybe this could be a 
>second request so this workaround doesn't have to confuse new users.
>
>If I recall there was also a problem with the card not having a 
>listing in vgadb; unfortunately that laptop has since gone to 
>pasture so I can't even attempt to recall what that was.
>
>Once everything was working, it ran plan9 just great thought :D
>
>--
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