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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:26:30 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Carsten_B=E4cker?= <cbaecker@demig.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: loader(8) readin failed on 7.2R and later including 8.0R
Message-ID:  <4BA22A06.1070904@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <4BA20A43.10006@demig.de>
References:  <4BA20A43.10006@demig.de>

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on 18/03/2010 13:10 Carsten Bäcker said the following:
> Hello,
> 
> i ran into a similar problem when recently trying to install 8.0R on an
> embedded system. We've been using this hardware for a couple of
> years with FreeBSD 4.11 and didn't see any problem like this.
> 
> Disabling the memory hole (15-16M) solved the problem here, but
> that shouldn't be a solution. I wonder whether it's a loader-, or a
> BIOS-problem, since memory-allocation should respect reserved
> areas.

True.  Please also keep in mind that BIOS should report reserved areas correctly too.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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