Wanted: a limit on kernel log buffer size

From: Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226@compuserve.com)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2003 - 20:34:08 EST

 Some people (who will mercifully go unnamed) just will _not_
read the documentation, and set the kernel log buffer shift
to 31 on a 256MB machine. This attempt to allocate 2GB of memory
for the buffer results in an unbootable kernel.

 Suggestions? 

--
 Chuck
 I am not a number!
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