Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:49:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID Message-ID: <199909281549.IAA00787@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:53:57 EDT." <19990927125356.A23727@numachi.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.) 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
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