From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 18:59:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629F716A40F for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:59:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik.u@dnainternet.net) Received: from satakieli.dnainternet.net (satakieli.dnainternet.net [212.149.75.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA54D13C461 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:59:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erik.u@dnainternet.net) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (host-212-149-186-30.kpylaajakaista.net [212.149.186.30]) by satakieli.dnainternet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358CECA0D for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:59:20 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <458D7C87.2090106@dnainternet.net> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:59:19 +0200 From: Erik Udo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <458D36E4.9000900@dnainternet.net> <458D67CC.1050102@dnainternet.net> In-Reply-To: <458D67CC.1050102@dnainternet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: memory holes X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:59:24 -0000 Ok... I got it solved by switching the memory modules of this computer to an another. Seemes like the motherboard-memory combination didn't work perfectly. It passed memtest afterwards, though i didn't run it for more than 5 minutes. Erik Udo wrote: > OK. I've tested OpenBSD and NetBSD. > > Both find 512MB of ram, but.. > NetBSD crashes after boot stage when it starts to load the kernel. > (thanks NetBSD team for not building the kernel image with debugging > symbols, but you did build it with DDB) > > OpenBSD finds 512MB of ram too, but... > it wont find my hard disk, even thought it has wd0 as a hard disk in dmesh. > > To add to my previous post, i tested with 128MB PC100 + 32MB PC100. Both > memory modules was found by FreeBSD and put to use. > > Which leads me to the conclusion: Why can't FreeBSD use PC133 memory > when OpenBSD can? Did someone forget to port drivers for memory modules? :P > > > Erik Udo wrote: >> I upgraded my hardware and software yesturday, and for some reason, >> FreeBSD only 'detects' 128MB of the memory, when the BIOS is clearly >> seeing 512MB. OpenBSD also finds 512MB of memory. >> >> So i added one 128MB ECC memory. There was one 128MB PC100 and 256MB >> PC133 memory before, and it worked fine on 6.2-PRERELASE. >> >> Now that i upgraded to 6.2-RC1, from 6.2-PRERELEASE and added the >> 128MB memory to the 384MB i had, the kernel started giving me this >> error on the first line of the kernel output: >> "Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up" >> >> Now, i searched google for anything, and found this earlier thread: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org/msg01624.html >> >> I also found this: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-October/013932.html >> >> >> Like the previous post says, the memory was found after the increased >> PHYSMAP_SIZE. I increased mine to 2*32, later 2*128. It didn't work. >> >> Also someone told me to add this line to the kernel config: >> options MAXMEM=524288 >> >> That didn't work either. >> >> I also tried to toggle all the bios settings on the computer, i even >> upgraded the bios. Nothing. >> >> Now i found out that OpenBSD sees 512MB of memory, so there must be >> some kind of trick to make FreeBSD recognize that memory too. >> >> Here is some output of my verbose boot: >> >> with 512MB: >> real memory = 134234112 (128 MB) >> Physical memory chunk(s): >> 0x0000000000001000 - 0x000000000009efff, 647168 bytes (158 pages) >> 0x0000000000100000 - 0x00000000003fffff, 3145728 bytes (768 pages) >> 0x0000000000c25000 - 0x0000000007d82fff, 118874112 bytes (29022 pages) >> avail memory = 121798656 (116 MB) >> >> Anyone have any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Erik >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >