On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Bela Valek wrote:
> 2010/3/12 erik quanstrom :
> >> How do other operating systems detect the available RAM? Could Plan 9
> >> use the same method?
> >
> > plan 9 uses the same methods for detecting ram
> > everyone else does. perhaps we trust bios too much,
> >
> I had this error on VMWare recently. The solution was to disable Venti and
> just use fossil. Venti is of questionable value when I'm already
> snapshotting my host's filesystem anyway.
won't help. his situation is dire. only 8mb of memory
seen.
- erik
2010/3/12 erik quanstrom :
>> How do other operating systems detect the available RAM? Could Plan 9
>> use the same method?
>
> plan 9 uses the same methods for detecting ram
> everyone else does. perhaps we trust bios too much,
> but 8mb isn't impossible, either.
>
> try
> a *noe820scan=1
> How do other operating systems detect the available RAM? Could Plan 9
> use the same method?
plan 9 uses the same methods for detecting ram
everyone else does. perhaps we trust bios too much,
but 8mb isn't impossible, either.
try
a *noe820scan=1
at the 9load menu prompt.
- erik
Hello!
When you are done setting up the system do not reboot right away,
rather reconfigure venti (via venti/conf) with small enough memory
settings. Then you can restart safely.
Regards,
Jorge-León
Bela Valek wrote:
Hi,
I used Erik's 9atoms.iso to install Plan 9. When its booting, afte
On Sat Feb 27 06:49:47 EST 2010, bval...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used Erik's 9atoms.iso to install Plan 9. When its booting, after
> its asking for root partition and username, I get the error message
> repeated: "out of physical memory; no swap configured". Why, oh why?
memory scan went sid
Hi,
I used Erik's 9atoms.iso to install Plan 9. When its booting, after
its asking for root partition and username, I get the error message
repeated: "out of physical memory; no swap configured". Why, oh why?
I use fossil without venti, on a 2GB partition, the RAM is also 2 GB.
I found the messa
