From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <7.0.1.0.0.20060918201956.020e3b38@arcor.de> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:28:19 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> From: Chuck Foreman Subject: Re: [9fans] install "out of physical memory" In-Reply-To: <7155ede00609172034w1d7ee768paff34c7577d6178a@mail.gmail.co m> References: <6104977.1158501998226.JavaMail.ngmail@webmail12> <6dcfa6780921d2e0c9f0da2ef3f1f02b@quanstro.net> <7.0.1.0.0.20060917211028.01d5d008@arcor.de> <7.0.1.0.0.20060917214649.01d5d008@arcor.de> <7.0.1.0.0.20060918003017.01d6c5d8@arcor.de> <7155ede00609172034w1d7ee768paff34c7577d6178a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Topicbox-Message-UUID: b9f32292-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 > >-- >burton samograd aka kruhft >http://www.myspace.com/kruhft >http://kruhft.boldlygoingnowhere.org