Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!vsi1!daver!bungi.com!news From: phil@cs.wwu.edu (Phil Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k Subject: RE: Minix hangs at start up Message-ID: <9102251711.AA15790@strawberry.cs.wwu.edu> Date: 25 Feb 91 17:11:38 GMT References: <> Sender: news@daver.bungi.com Reply-To: phil@cs.wwu.edu Lines: 14 Approved: news@daver.bungi.com >Still a mystery as to >why 8MB should cause MINIX to fail, anyone want to expand on this? For those of you new to MINIX, the 8MB problem was due to "broken" algorithm for finding the end of ram. Since the memory appears several times in the address space, 8MB appeared as a large memory space without any breaks. The 4MB appeared with holes. This has been fixed and the 1.5 hybrid version works well in 8MB. That is what I am running and I have 8MB in my machine. So, if your problem is the 8MB, pull out 4. Get MINIX running. Upgrade to the 1.5 MINIX, put back the 4 and you should be running great. --Phil