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Date:      Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:53:57 -0400
From:      Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID
Message-ID:  <19990927125356.A23727@numachi.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909270116.SAA15376@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 06:16:09PM -0700
References:  <19990924150956.C5560@numachi.com> <199909270116.SAA15376@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 06:16:09PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It suggests that you have memory problems; have you tried physically 
> extracting most of the memory from the system? 

No; I instead used the BIOS's mechanism for artifically restricting
available memory.  (I had in fact also tried removing all but 512M
from the machine, but to no avail.)

I do have an update, however, I re-generated the kern.flp and
mfsroot.flp floppies, and now, I can successfully launch the install
program.  We are re-configuring the RIAD controller now; once we
have a core OS, with all memory enabled, I'll repor back...

> -- 
> \\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
> \\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> \\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com

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