diff --git a/repos/base-nova/ports/nova.hash b/repos/base-nova/ports/nova.hash
index ae43ca6ed8..1464081ed0 100644
--- a/repos/base-nova/ports/nova.hash
+++ b/repos/base-nova/ports/nova.hash
@@ -1 +1 @@
-59cc18dd3ea0c190f75c2e7d8fa35f84ca43d0fb
+931c26a24d490daae7df7ebbb03274366088adf0
diff --git a/repos/base-nova/ports/nova.port b/repos/base-nova/ports/nova.port
index 62b8e2c037..1e60bbce86 100644
--- a/repos/base-nova/ports/nova.port
+++ b/repos/base-nova/ports/nova.port
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ DOWNLOADS := nova.git
 
 # r9 branch - use r9_debug for more verbose kernel messages
 URL(nova) := https://github.com/alex-ab/NOVA.git
-REV(nova) := 85bac7065cdee3045efbedd116c46bd79f55fe5c
+REV(nova) := 4d6f04dd02d8099a20766025457be0afd0eae534
 DIR(nova) := src/kernel/nova
 
 PATCHES   := $(wildcard $(REP_DIR)/patches/*.patch)
diff --git a/repos/base-nova/src/kernel/target.mk b/repos/base-nova/src/kernel/target.mk
index 5f94e18129..d078584b38 100644
--- a/repos/base-nova/src/kernel/target.mk
+++ b/repos/base-nova/src/kernel/target.mk
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ LD_SCRIPT_STATIC = hypervisor.o
 
 $(TARGET): hypervisor.o
 
-hypervisor.o: $(NOVA_SRC_DIR)/src/hypervisor.ld
-	$(VERBOSE)$(CC) $(INCLUDES) -MP -MMD -pipe $(CC_MARCH) -xc -E -P $< -o $@
+hypervisor.o: $(NOVA_SRC_DIR)/src/hypervisor.ld target.mk
+	$(VERBOSE)$(CC) $(INCLUDES) -DCONFIG_KERNEL_MEMORY=32M -MP -MMD -pipe $(CC_MARCH) -xc -E -P $< -o $@
 
 clean cleanall:
 	$(VERBOSE)rm -rf $(NOVA_BUILD_DIR)