> 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.)
The reason I asked about physically removing memory is simply that
we've seen a lot of problems with systems that fail due to being
electrically overloaded with large memory configurations.
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