On 5/22/2026 2:39 PM, Lloyd wrote:
I would verify your object files are not corrupt before driving yourself
crazy digging deeper for a solution.
Okay, it looks like corrupted files were the problem. After bumping the
memory to 2 GB and turning /usr/obj into swap, I got this error in the log:
*** Parse error in /usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC: Need an operator in
'adwmc' (Makefile:3403)
On Makefile line 3403 it started with adwmc and had a long string of ^@
(null, I think?) and then continued on.
[24 hours later]
So, after trying a bunch of different memory sizes and adding swap it
looks like 7.9 amd64 requires *minimum* 1.5 GB RAM to successfully run
reorder_kernel. If I boot with less the machine becomes permanently
unresponsive, the only way to ensure a successful boot is to give it 2
GB. Swap space is irrelevant, or at least when my machine fell over
systat swap was showing:
DISK 512-blocks USED
sd0b 2588544 18432
sd0j 2588544 18544
Total 5177088 36976
I'll need to set up a minimal 7.8 system to test, because I was running
it with 256 MB RAM a couple of months ago, and I only upgraded to 512 MB
to troubleshoot a cosmetic issue in the Proxmox console.
