On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:13 PM, william degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> <snip> >> >> Anyway, try it, and let us know what happens. How much memory does the >> system >> have on it now? >> >> > 64K. I'd like to get another M7891, mine is only 1/2 populated. > > >> >> If it doesn't work, I can do some experiments and see what's the least >> amount >> of memory one needs. >> >> There are a whole bunch of parameters which will reduce the size of the >> resident OS; if necessary, I can turn them all down to the minimum, and >> see >> what we get - although just reducing the number of disk buffer may do it. >> >> > OK. > > >> As for the applications, it does swap, so there's no requirement for more >> than >> one process to be resident at a time, so whatever the largest is - >> probably >> the C compiler - there only needs to be enough memory left over after the >> OS >> is loaded, for that one. It looks like the shell is about 10KB, for >> example. >> >> >> If it won't boot, don't trash the disk: if we send you another bootable >> disk, >> we can make it tiny (only Unix, and enough files to get it running: >> /etc/init, >> /bin/sh, etc), and if/once it books, you can mount the disk you just >> wrote and >> move the bootable Unix system image over, and then reboot on the current >> disk, >> to get to the rest of the stuff. >> >> Do you have two working RL drives on the machine? >> >> > I was going to say...yes I have two working RL drives. > > >> Noel >> > > > The build just finished. When I boot I get the ! prompt, but when I type > rlinux the system bombs and I can go no farther > > Bill > sorry I mean rlunix, but typing anything kills the CPU and I have to restart the system.. b
