From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 28 8:57:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles556.castles.com [208.214.165.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F6515732 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:56:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00787; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:49:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909281549.IAA00787@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Reichert Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:53:57 EDT." <19990927125356.A23727@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:49:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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.) The reason I asked about physically removing memory is simply that we've seen a lot of problems with systems that fail due to being electrically overloaded with large memory configurations. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message