X386 1.1 and AT&T SVR3.2.1 - help on how to set up the server

[Chin Fang]

In article <1991Feb25.003248.312 at mirek.CAM.ORG> bodzio at mirek.CAM.ORG (Bogdan Z. Dlugogorski) writes:
>
>  For the last few days, I've been trying to set up Thomas' X386 1.1 server
>on my 20 Mhz AT&T 6386E WGS with NEC/MultiSync 3D and SWAN 1M ET4000 sVGA
>card. I have AT&T UNIX 5.3.1.
 
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I am not sure how much AT&T V differs from either ISC and ESIX rev. D.  If you
use AT&T UNIX SysV/386, (I hate to say this) you are venturing out to the
unknown more or less, presuming you are using binaries downloaded from     
somewhere.  These archived binaries have been built *specifically* with 
both ISC (2.02 or later) and ESIX V rev. D in mind.  I know for a fact that
if you use them on SCO boxes they will cause kernel panic!!  As to AT&T SVR
3.2.1, Hmmm... I don't know anyone who has done a porting job yet.

>  I was able to rebuild the kernel with the parameters indicated by
>Thomas in his install.sh with the exception of SHLBMAX which I set to 6 -
>the maximum value in the mtune file.
 
I debated with myself with the mtune restriction for about one day, but
finally said to heck with it and I edited mtune in /etc/conf/cf.d, changed
the max of SHLBMAX to 8 (YES! no typo here) and then ran Thomas' install.sh
wich invoked /etc/bin/idtune and raised SHLBMAX to 8 too.  So far so good.

I also know a few other ESIX users who have raised SHLBMAX to 8 without any
adverse effect.
 
So I suspect that in your case, you can raise SHLBMAX to 8 as well.  

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I didn't encounter any error messages that you got however.

Chin Fang
Mechanical Engineering Department
Stanford University
fangchin at leland.stanford.edu