Re: kernel panic

[James Morrison]

--- Mark Ellis <mark.uzumati@virgin.net> wrote:
> Hi all, getting a panic on boot from gnumach 1.3
> 
> panic: linux_init: alloc_contig_mem failed
> 
> I've found a few other reports from back in August 2001, possibly 
> relating it to too much RAM, or possibly not. I have 354MB.
> 
> Oddly, the panic occurs when booted off hd1s3, but not off hd1s1, using 
> both a debian kernel and one cross-comped from linux. Disk layout is:-
> 
> hd1s1 approx 1GB ext2 hurd/gnu
> hd1s3 approx 1GB ext2 hurd/gnu
> unpartitioned approx 1GB
> hd1s2 approx 7GB ext3 linux/gnu
> 
> in that order. Was the previous issue resolved, and does anyone think 
> it could be related to mine ? Thanks for any insight.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 

 What happens when you set root=device:hd1s2?


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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2B co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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