Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:08:20 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: 'Wilko Bulte' <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: as2100 saga continues: memory trouble? *sigh* Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA247@l04.research.kpn.com>
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Dear Wilko,
> > >
> > > Suppose that I know the bad memory range, any way of
> > > telling FreeBSD not to
> > > use it? Perhaps abuse the option ROM device to claim
> > > that memory range for itself?
> >
> > I have another idea.. install from Wilko's mininst CDROM. Alpha now
> > (after 4.4-RELEASE) has support for setting hw.physmem to limit the
> > amount of memory freebsd uses (settable from the boot loader).
>
Yesterday I finally found the five minutes needed to burn the image and test
the install.
press any key to boot 1..2
ok set hw.physmem=32M
ok boot
<<panic>>
:(
Kees Jan
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