Kernel too big NFLOCKS NINODE ect

[Mark Hittinger]

Where I work we have to pump these parameters up as well.  We are currently
running Xenix 2.3.2 on 286 and 386 platforms.   

The only time I ran in to a problem similar to yours is when I had a 1.2 gig
disk.  The number of cylinders is greater than 1024, and when I re-linked
the kernel, part of /xenix wound up beyond the 1024'th cylinder.

When you boot, the bios only supports reading out to the 1024'th cylinder, it
wraps around if you go over.  Weird things happen.  We called SCO and they
denied they were using the bios for the bootstrap.  Maybe in SCO/UNIX.

Anyway, I would up doing an "fsck -S" to re-order the free list.  Then I
re-linked xenix and prayed that all of it fit inside 1024 cylinders.  It
worked.  I have had this happen more than a couple of times and fsck -S
has always bailed me out.

good luck

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