SamMaEl wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> > > At 7:38 AM -0700 8/29/97, SamMaEl wrote:
> > > >	I just tried installing the 1.2.1 distribution onto my Mac IIsi. I
> > > >installed it on my IIci months ago and have been running it with no
> > > >problems. I just tried booting into BSD on the IIsi and got the error:
> > > >
> > > >	You're hosed! Try booting with the 32-bit addressing enabled in
> > > >the memory control panel.
> > > >	Panic: Cannot work with current memory mappings.
> > > >
> > > >	It gives the videoaddr as: 0x9000480
> > > >	Says: Failure in BSD Boot nextpa = 0x105000, high[0]=0xf9000480
> > > >
> > > >	I would try playing with the debugging... but the keyboard does
> > > >not respond ;-)

[advice to turn on 32-bit addressing deleted...]

> 	Well, the memory control panel doesn't show a setting for 32 bit
> mode. That is what puzzles me. I'm running 7.6.1... I just installed the
> drive last night, and installed 7.6.1 on it after I made the A/UX
> partitions. Might it be that and a combination of swap space? I allocated
> about 24 megs of swap.... I have the max of 17MB RAM...

Hmmm....it may be that since 7.6.1 doesn't support 32-bit dirty machines,
there is no longer any reason to support 24-bit addressing mode.  How
strange.  Do you have virtual memory turned on in MacOS?  If so, turn it
_off_.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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