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From: HBO043%DJUKFA11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Christoph van Wuellen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Reboot solved?
Message-ID: <24219@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 11 Jul 90 12:58:19 GMT
Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.EDU
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Oh, no! The real problem is the memory allocation in the systask.
There is a static variable been_here that gets Memory from a TOS variable.
When you reboot, the next request for memory fails.
On my mc68000 MINIX box, when I do CTRL-ALT-DEL, the boot message appears
and MINIX asks for inserting the Floppy containing the root file system.
Then, MM says: no memory left.

I have not tried, but a solution is to make been_here in this context
global and clear it on reboot.

Your solution simply was to have a root filesystem that is less than half
the memory size, so you can request the memory twice.
C.v.W.