Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 21:50:14 -0400 From: Barry Lustig <barry@lustig.com> To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot time memory issue Message-ID: <3B105D56.1A637EF@lustig.com> References: <3B0858F9.1E483EEE@lustig.com> <20010525091937.B774@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
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Valentin Nechayev wrote: > > Sun, May 20, 2001 at 19:53:29, barry (Barry Lustig) wrote about "Boot time memory issue": > > Do verbose boot (`boot -v') with large SC_HISTORY_SIZE (1000 at least, > 2000 at most), and after boot check for "SMAP ..." lines at the very > beginning of the kernel boot log at /dev/console. (They are not written > to log viewable with dmesg.) Another way is to use serial console. > With this SMAP lines one can say more concrete diagnosis. Here are the SMAP lines: SMAP type=01 base=00000000 00000000 len=00000000 0009f800 SMAP type=02 base=00000000 0009f800 len=00000000 00000800 SMAP type=02 base=00000000 000e8400 len=00000000 00017c00 SMAP type=01 base=00000000 00100000 len=00000000 13ef0000 SMAP type=03 base=00000000 13ff0000 len=00000000 0000f800 SMAP type=04 base=00000000 13fff800 len=00000000 00000800 SMAP type=02 base=00000000 fff80000 len=00000000 00080000 Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up > > > I was curious whether the memory limitation on the Sony VAIO Z505 > > machines was an actual hardware limitation or a marketing issue. I just > > tried adding a 256MB module to my machine. The BIOS seemed to mostly > > recognize it. > > It did see 320MB of RAM, but had problems when testing all of it. > > Current (from > > a couple of weeks ago) boots, but gives me: > > Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up > > > > and comes up showing 64MB of RAM. Is this something that can be worked > > around, or have I run up against an actual hardware limit on the > > machine? > > /netch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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