Re: kern/41215: cannot load miniroot as kmod, kernel heap full

[dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41215; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dieter roelants <dieter.NetBSD%pandora.be@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/41215: cannot load miniroot as kmod, kernel heap full
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:33:20 +0200

 On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:50:00 +0000 (UTC)
 Lubomir Sedlacik <salo%Xtrmntr.org@localhost> wrote:
 
 > I got the custom miniroot.kmod built pretty easily but it's failing at boot
 > with full kernel heap.
 
 I don't know if it's the same cause, but booting Xen fails for me with
 the same error. But see below.
 
 > (capured in qemu, since it's very hard to stop before it scrolls away on real
 > hardware)
 
 My way of working around it (I can't use qemu, obviously), was to set
 the vesa mode to 1280x1024 because it scrolls slow enough to make me
 able to read it. To increase the time the error was on-screen, I filled
 the display first with a `vesa list`, a `help` and finally a `ls`. And
 guess what... when I run ls from the boot prompt, it succeeds loading
 the netbsd and xen kernel afterwards (I tried this several times). I
 have no clue why this is so and if it's a workaround in your case as
 well.
 
 dieter