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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Acer with 9atom.iso: out of physical memory
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:07:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <912ba005d92b1ad937669659c3a907ba@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ecada1e0908260159l597d6f12x24c92c12b26bfdbb@mail.gmail.com>

> PBS1...
> Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> ELCR: 0C00
> pcirouting: South Bridge 8086, 2919 not found
>
> ...aaaand hangup both in IDE and AHCI mode. not even Ctrl+Alt+Del
> works. I suspect the buggy BIOS, but both Ubuntu 9.04 and WinXP worked
> (the latter only in IDE mode).

nope this is standard ich* behavior.  the
standard sd driver doesn't work around it.

> - 2. Erik's 9atom.iso (of Aug. 16 22:13 PM) in IDE mode:
>
> PBS1... Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> ELCR: 0C00
> sdata: blind probe 1f0
> sdata: blind probe 170
> aoepnp(nil)
> found 54 e820 entries
> Boot devices: fd0
> boot from:

i'll take a look at this.  looks like a bug.  the number of e820
entries is also curious.

> -4. trying to boot, after I log in as glenda, fossil says repeatedly:
>
> out of physical memory, no swap configured
>
> RAM is 2 GB, partition is 2 GB, i selected fossil only, i accepted the
> default in prepdisk (i admit, i didnt look at it carefully, but it was
> never a problem before). Any suggestions?

what does /dev/swap say?

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-26  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-26  8:59 Bela Valek
2009-08-26  9:07 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-08-26 10:26   ` Bela Valek
2009-08-26 10:35     ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-26 12:05       ` Bela Valek
2009-08-26 12:23         ` erik quanstrom
2009-08-26 12:39           ` Bela Valek
2009-08-26 13:06             ` erik quanstrom

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