Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!rwthinf!andrej!windy From: windy@andrej.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Andrew John Stuart Miller) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Problems with using /dev/hd3 as ram image Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 13:19:37 GMT References: <1991Mar6.145656.53@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu> Sender: news@rwthinf.UUCP Lines: 35 l1ngo@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu writes: >Hello, >I recently bought Minix 1.5 from Waldensoft. Everything seems to work fine >with my Compudyne 286/16 with 2 Seagate IDE Hard drives (40 Meg, and 110 >Meg) except I cannot get the ram image to load from HD3. I've tried just >about everything such as paritioning hd3 to 512K and then mkfs /dev/hd3 512, >and also parititioning hd3 to 5 Megs and mkfs /dev/hd3 512. The same thing >happens everytime I select ram image: hd3 from the start-up menu: >system panic--not enough memory (or something like that--the screen freaks >out and the computer resets quickly). I have 1 Meg of ram, so I am baffled. >I have also tried mkfs /dev/hd3 360 (and smaller) to no avail. The manual >does not help much. >I've had to resort to using /dev/hd3 as my root device. I'd appreciate any >info offered. Thanks, >Linh >lngo@copper.denver.colorado.edu >l1ngo@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu HOW MUCH RAM DO YOU HAVE? HOW MUCH RAM DOES YOUR KERNEL USE? RAMDISK+KERNEL<=640K! If in doubt read the manual, look at the sources. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- email: windy@strange.informatik.rwth-aachen.de snail: Ruetscherstr 165 D-5100 Aachen voice: 0049 (0)241 894-355