Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:12:20 +0100 From: "'Wilko Bulte'" <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: as2100 saga continues: memory trouble? *sigh* Message-ID: <20020111091219.A27972@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA247@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:08:20AM %2B0100 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA247@l04.research.kpn.com>
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:08:20AM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > 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>> Details please? (transcript from serial console) -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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