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Date:      Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:26:49 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: as2100 saga continues: memory trouble? *sigh*
Message-ID:  <20011206002649.B8067@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <15374.39269.403872.837182@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:02:13PM -0500
References:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA180@l04.research.kpn.com> <15374.39269.403872.837182@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:02:13PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Koster, K.J. writes:
>  > 
>  > 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).
> 
> Try setting it to 32M & see if you make it through the install.
> If 32M are bad, the odds are good they're not in the 32MB you're going
> to use..

Interesting idea.. I don't think SRM reports at which phys address the
bad pages are located. 

Wilko
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