Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:43:29 -0600 (MDT) From: Glenn Chisholm <glenn@ircache.net> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909241338430.48641-100000@abalaea.ircache.net> In-Reply-To: <19990924150956.C5560@numachi.com>
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The standard boot disks seem to have a problem with more than 512MB of memory. I encountered this recently, I pulled out all but 512MB of memory and installed. All worked perfectly and then increased the memory up to 2GB with the installed running version. All worked well. It seems there was a issue that was corrected a search on the FreeBSD site will turn up the reference. For some reason the fix that was commited missed the boot disk. I experienced this in 3.1 and 3.2. I will note that when I attempted to add more than 2GB the machine would panic on boot again. Unfortunatly I did not own this machine so I only had it for a short period so I could do no usefull debugging on either problem. I forgot to post this problem so it may be fixed :-( glenn > I've pored over -question, to no avail, so here goes. > > We are trying to install FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge > 6300. > > Said beast has a DPT SmartRAID IV controller, and 2G of memory. > > We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M. > > When we try an install from the floppies, the mfsroot floppies > panics with an 'pmap_enter: invalid page directory, pdir=0x601063, > va=0xc2400000'. > > I have no idea what this error message means. > > When I try to install from the CDs fro 3.1-R (latest I have on > hand), I get a crash (just a dump of registers , and a 'halted' > message). I can get details, if it's felt to be important. > > Any pointers? > > -- > Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com > 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (781) 899-7484 x704 > Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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