Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:58:08 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kpanic on install >32GB of RAM Message-ID: <1287266288.2522.27.camel@home-yahoo> In-Reply-To: <20101016201603.GA9807@icarus.home.lan> References: <1287158693.5225.7.camel@home-yahoo> <20101015162714.GA12400@icarus.home.lan> <4CB881AF.1080708@acm.poly.edu> <1287160697.5225.14.camel@home-yahoo> <1287258720.2522.26.camel@home-yahoo> <20101016201603.GA9807@icarus.home.lan>
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On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:38 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:30 -0700, Boris Kochergin wrote: > > > > On 10/15/10 12:27, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:04:53AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > > >> So, trying to get a massively overpowered HP box up with 7.3 amd64 > > > > >> version up and running. > > > > >> > > > > >> I can't tell at the moment, but it looks like the installer kernel is > > > > >> having issues with>32GB of RAM in this box. > > > > >> > > > > >> Are we using the i386 kernel on amd64 installs? > > > > > If you booted a FreeBSD image that has "amd64" in the ISO name, then the > > > > > kernel is actually 64-bit (amd64). The only i386 piece would be the > > > > > bootloader. > > > > > > > > > > There's probably someone here who can help with the issue you describe, > > > > > as there's occasional posts here and there from people who experience > > > > > issues/problems when using very large amounts of RAM. > > > > > > > > > I've got an amd64 machine with 48 GB of RAM that has run 7, 8, and now > > > > 9, which leads me to believe that your issue is not solely related to > > > > the amount of memory. > > > > > > > > -Boris > > > > __________ > > > > > > Edge case at 64G perhaps? That's the minimum you can get in the HP > > > DL980 apparently. > > > > > > Sean > > > > Hrm, no success today setting available RAM to 32G and reducing the > > number of processors to 8. > > > > I've disabled and tweaked pretty much everything available to me here > > and have tried to boot up the fbsd 8 install media with the same result > > as using the fbsd 7 media: Repeated and continuous panics on all > > processors simultaneously after selecting install method from the boot > > menu. > > > > Not sure what to do at this point to get the system up and running. > > Suggestions? > > Can you boot a Linux liveCD installation of some sort for comparison? > That would possibly rule out OS vs. hardware/BIOS ordeals. > We've successfully installed RHEL 5u4 on it, I'll fire that up and post the boot output shortly. Sean
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