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From: wbb@hpclove.HP.COM (Bill Buzbee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMinix: rmaker problems when rebuiling build application
Message-ID: <5030004@hpclove.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Nov 90 07:50:02 GMT
References: <638@pdxgate.UUCP>
Organization: Hewlett Packard Calif. Language Lab
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>deo@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Steven Furber) writes:
>Has anyone been able to successfully build the boot application for MacMinix?

  I've managed to do this, but it took quite a few chmem iterations.

>I keep trying to build a new boot application and it (finally) fails when
>rmaker is called.  Rmaker -v minix.rc NEWmacboot runs for a few seconds, then
>comes back with:
>	rmaker: Exhausted mem
>	; line number 445
>That's funny, I chmem'd it up until I was at 1000000 bytes (1mg), only now
>instead of simply giving me the above error message it bombs with an ID=03.

  This seems familiar, but it succeeded for me with rmem chmem'd to 305K.

  I wish I had better advice, but I don't recall doing anything fancy - just
  tried again when I got a strange error and it eventually worked.

  .....bill buzbee