Re: Hurd doesn't boot with 1024 Mb RAM

2003-01-03 Thread Grant Bowman
* Gerardo Pirla Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030103 16:33]: > First, many thanks for your help. > > The problem was the ammount of memory, but uppermem doesn't work !!! > > I've tried: > > uppermem=131072 > root (hd1,1) > kernel . > > And it causes a kernel panic !!!

Hurd doesn't boot with 1024 Mb RAM

2003-01-03 Thread Gerardo Pirla Diaz
Hi James, First, many thanks for your help. The problem was the ammount of memory, but uppermem doesn't work !!! I've tried: uppermem=131072 root (hd1,1) kernel . And it causes a kernel panic !!! Pulling out a ram stick, GNU/Hurd boots OK !!! I've tried the grubs uppermem para

Escape-Meta-Alt-Shift

2003-01-03 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Don't know if this is known, but it looks like GNU Mach doesn't grok multiple modifier keys (did it ever grok them?). For example C-M-v doesn't work in Emacs. I haven't looked into this in any detail at all, so if someone feels bored, plesae do. ;-) _

Re: OSKit Entropy Patch

2003-01-03 Thread Grant Bowman
Derek, Please update http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/RandomDevice if you feel comfortable with a wiki interface. I'm biased, but it's a great place to keep folks updated on progress and to collect relevant references. I know there's been some lengthy discussion of this issue recently but I