From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 12 21:46:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A62037B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:46:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eAD5jrm33183; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:15:53 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 16:15:52 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Adam Kress Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Not enough memory to boot (was: Old timer PC) Message-ID: <20001113161552.L32175@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dutch@neo.rr.com on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:52:52PM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 12 November 2000 at 22:52:52 -0600, Adam Kress wrote: > Hi, > got a small question, I have a machine here that is an OLD 386 with 4 megs > of ram. I took a 500 meg hard drive and installed freeBSD-3.4-RELEASE on > that drive while it was in another machine. the machine I installed it on is > a PIII 450 with 352 megs of ram. I set up the file system in it like so: > 64 megs as a swap partition > 436 as the / (root) partition > or slices, it booted fine in the machine that I installed it on. When I put > the drive in the OLD machine it gets to the normal boot process till this > error comes up: > changing root device to wd0s1a > pid5 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space *sigh* Looks like we have a race condition with low memory situation. > from there it is stopped. I'm currently searching for parameters to pass to > boot, but I'm not having any luck. I'm hoping someone might be able to help. > I'm going to see if I can jam anymore ram in it later. That would be one solution. The other would be to install an older version of FreeBSD, which might require less memory; probably 2.2.8 would be the best one to try. I don't see us doing anything to "fix" FreeBSD to run in minimal memory, since we're actually planning to drop support for the 386 in the foreseeable future. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message