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Date:      Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:41:41 +0200
From:      Jacques Fourie <jf@trispen.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Pre-loaded mfsroot size and FreeBSD 4.9 with 4G RAM
Message-ID:  <20060208164141.GA21718@trispen.com>

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Hi,

I am pre-loading an image (used as MFS root) from the boot loader on FreeBSD
4.9 by using 'load -t mfs_root mfsroot' in loader.conf. The size of this
image is 64M. If I have 4G of RAM in the machine, the 64M size causes the
kernel to panic almost immediately. With only 2G of RAM the kernel boots
without a problem. I have tried to increase the KVA_PAGES value to 512 but
the kernel still panics. If I decrease the image size to 40M the kernel
boots successfully on a machine with 4G of RAM. Any ideas as to how I can go
about finding (or fixing) this problem?

Regards,
jacques



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