From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 07:11:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D8316A4CE; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:11:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4EE43D2D; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:11:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.196.44]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004021815111501500goru4e>; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:11:19 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id E439812; Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:11:10 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: References: <20040217151445.PHTR18515.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 18 Feb 2004 10:11:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20040217151445.PHTR18515.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> Message-ID: <44n07g2zjl.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: anholt@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9 install-boot problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:11:19 -0000 writes: > installed 4.9, when i boot i get the message: "panic:contigmalloc1: > size must not be 0" and that's as far as it goes. i dual boot with > linux, the mbr is not a problemm since i can select either os > without problems. anybody know what the problem is and a fix? > appreciate ur help,thanks. This seems to be one of the symptoms of buggy AGP support in the system firmware. Unfortunately, there is no longer any supported way of installing FreeBSD without it -- AGP is in the GENERIC kernels, and has been for quite some time now. You might try booting to the loader and disabling AGP, but I'm not sure that will help. > incidentally, / on 4.9 is well inside the 8g limit, though it seems > that on freebsd that's not a requirement, at least i haven't seen > any mention of it. The kernel has to be inside whatever *BIOS* limit exists for booting. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"