Re: [Geekos-devel] Problem on Real Hardware

[David H. <da...@cs...>]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 09:53:47PM +0100, Matthias Korte wrote:
> Hi All,
> I try to test geekos on real hardware, but geekos does not boot on this hardware:
> 
> 166 MHZ PII 
> 64 MB Ram
> 30 GB Hdd
> 
> Geekos post this message while booting:
> 
> Creating Kernel heap: start = 00102000, size = -1056768
> Failed assertion: ... at bget.c, line 1022 (thread=00000000)

The fact that the heap size is negative is probably the cause of the
assertion.  It might be that the memory detection code does not work
on machines with 64 MB of RAM or more.

The memory detection code is in the file "setup.asm", if you want to
investigate the problem yourself.  I will probably take a look at this
problem sometime soon.

Thanks for the report!

-Dave