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Date:      Mon,  4 Sep 2000 06:25:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      kositsyn@chas.ru
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   misc/21025: BTX loader 1.00 gets 1Gb of memory from BIOS instead of 56Kb
Message-ID:  <20000904132506.56A1737B422@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         21025
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       BTX loader 1.00 gets 1Gb of memory from BIOS instead of 56Kb
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 04 06:30:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Kositsyn
>Release:        4.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
JSCB Private Bank Ltd
>Environment:
BTX loader 1.00 BTX verion is 1.01
AcerAltos 9000V 2xP100, 56Mb in 8 SIMMs, AIC7880P
>Description:
When booting from installation diskettes ACER BIOS shows following:
Base Memory      :    640 KB
Extended Memory  :  56320 KB
while BTX loader shows another picture:
BIOS 639kB/1070100kB available memory
And when the loader starts kernel PC's screen flashes several times and machine reboots. While the screen is flashing I can see a part of 'To many holes at ... memory' message.
My older FreeBSD boot loader shows following and everything worked well
>How-To-Repeat:
Every try to install the system.
>Fix:
Nope :(

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
 >> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000: 639/56320 k of memory, internal console
 The diskette set is good because it works well for the other computers.


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