On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:35:53PM +1000, DG wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I tried to install NetBSD 1.6 on an HP Vectra VL/5 (Pentium 200, 32M RAM).
> I used boot1.fs and boot2.fs written to a couple of floppies, it reads the
> first floppy during boot, reads the second, then stops with the error:
> 
> panic: uvm_page_physload: start >= end
> 
> So I tried the equivalent 1.5.3 boot floppies which booted fine, and I
> installed the 1.6 sets off a local FTP server (after renaming kern.tgz which
> seems to be the only set with a different filename between 1.5.3 and 1.6),
> everything *appeared* to install ok, but when I tried to reboot it only got
> so far and stopped with the same error.
> 
> A Google search said something about memory segments starting on a 16M
> boundary, and had a patch for the respective source file (i386/machdep.c),
> but that doesn't help as I can't get it to boot at all.

I though this one was solved ...

> 
> Is there a workaround for this?

Check you bioses options, specially for holes at 15MB, or something like that.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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