From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 3 15:49:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA22825 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vpm.com (vpm.com [207.49.29.143]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA22820 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:48:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snoopy (pm24.cwo.com [207.49.29.34]) by vpm.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA14710 for ; Sat, 3 Aug 1996 15:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608032251.PAA14710@vpm.com> X-Sender: mcs@vpm.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 15:45:48 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Mark Stout Subject: Re: Errors compiling 2.1.5 kernel Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 04:31 PM 8/3/96 -0600, Aaron D. Gifford wrote: >This exact same error occured when I compiled a 2.1.5 kernel and the cause >of the problem for me was doing an 'options "MAXMEM=(128*1024)"' in my >local config exactly as demonstrated in the LINT config file for the purpose >of making all 128MB of RAM available on my system. When I changed it to >read 'options "MAXMEM=131072"' instead, the error (of course) went >away. It made me wonder why the example in LINT was not a valid working >example. This could be the source of your problem too if you used the LINT >example to increase the available RAM beyond 64MB using the MAXMEM option. > >Aaron out. This was exactly my problem. I have 32MB and "MAXMEM=(32*1024)" didn't work, but "MAXMEM=32768" did. Thanks, Mark ========================================================================== Mark Stout | The Village Potpourri Mall: http://www.vpm.com/ ---------------+---------------------------------------------------------- VPM Enterprises; P.O.Box 6427; Folsom, CA 95763-6427 Secured Internet Sales, Marketing and Advertising Specialist ==========================================================================