Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:15:53 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: no BIOS SMAP info from loader Message-ID: <200711051415.53489.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <54db43990711050848i67b54bfbuc290414e6f4847f7@mail.gmail.com> References: <6eb82e0711010634x5f70e974i78c505d8eda24223@mail.gmail.com> <54db43990711050652v1cf7a2e8ra1fcbdfe3e1a436e@mail.gmail.com> <54db43990711050848i67b54bfbuc290414e6f4847f7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 05 November 2007 11:48:07 am Bob Johnson wrote: > On 11/5/07, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My web searches on this indicated that when HP first introduced these > > systems, they had the same problem with Linux. HP provided a patch > > that allows recent Linux kernels to boot. Older i386 FreeBSDs also can > > not boot on my HP dc7700. So it appears someone has already fixed this > > for i386, but no one has moved it to AMD64. > > > > I don't remember which i386 versions work or don't work, but I can > > start booting install disks and find out. > > Hmmm. Maybe I should retract that. I cannot find an i386 install CD > that won't boot on it. I've tried 7.0-BETA1, 6.2-STABLEsnap200708, > 6.2-RC1, 6.1-RELEASE, 6.0-BETA2, 6.0-BETA1, 5.3-RC1 (hangs probing > ATA1), 4.5-RELEASE, and 4.3-RELEASE. But I thought I remembered being > unable to boot some i386 install CDs in it. Without an SMAP, FreeBSD/i386 is only going to find about 64M of RAM on the box though. Do you know what the patch was that HP provided for Linux? I wasn't able to find it. If you disable ACPI is FreeBSD/i386 able to see all of the RAM in the box? -- John Baldwin
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