On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 06:16:09PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M.
> >
> > When we try an install from the floppies, the mfsroot floppies
> > panics with an 'pmap_enter: invalid page directory, pdir=0x601063,
> > va=0xc2400000'.
> >
> > I have no idea what this error message means.
>
> It suggests that you have memory problems; have you tried physically
> extracting most of the memory from the system?
No; I instead used the BIOS's mechanism for artifically restricting
available memory. (I had in fact also tried removing all but 512M
from the machine, but to no avail.)
I do have an update, however, I re-generated the kern.flp and
mfsroot.flp floppies, and now, I can successfully launch the install
program. We are re-configuring the RIAD controller now; once we
have a core OS, with all memory enabled, I'll repor back...
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