Re: Hurd doesn't boot with 1024 Mb RAM

[Grant Bowman]

* Gerardo Pirla Diaz <gpdiaz@bellmonte.com> [030103 16:33]:
> First, many thanks for your help.
> 
> The problem was the ammount of memory, but uppermem doesn't work !!!
> 
> I've tried:
> 
>       uppermem=131072
>       root (hd1,1)
>       kernel .............
> 
> And it causes a kernel panic !!!
> 
> Pulling out a ram stick, GNU/Hurd boots OK !!!
> 
> I've tried the grubs uppermem parameter with an L4/Fiasco kernel,
> and grub works fine (is documented L4/Fiasco that doesn't boot
> with more than 256 Mb)
> 
> Maybe a mach/hurd BUG ??

This is a known limit.  From [1] I found a reference to this [2] URL.

Regards,

-- 
-- Grant Bowman                                <grantbow@grantbow.com>

[1] http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/KnownHurdLimits

[2] http://www.nongnu.org/thug/gnumach_hardware.html#Memory