Do you have enough VM (swap is ok)?  You need: 

all your binaries including srv + 
RVM data size

Peter

thoth_at_purplefrog.com writes:
 > thoth_at_purplefrog.com ,in message <199804161410.KAA18804_at_cise.ufl.edu>, wrote: 
 > 
 > > rdsinit /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 0x1e04000 0x200000000 0x1c00000 0x200000 80 32
 > 
 >   Hmm, make the saddr 0x20000000 instead.  I'm currently running 
 > 
 > rdsinit /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 0x1e04000 0x20000000 0x1c00000 0x200000 80 32
 > 
 >   and it's taking forever (as usual).
 > 
 > -- 
 > Bob Forsman                                   thoth_at_gainesville.fl.us
 >            http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/