From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 18 13:26:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 606D5106566B for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:26:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E0018FC1A for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:26:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from odyssey.starpoint.kiev.ua (alpha-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.101]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id PAA06197; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:26:30 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@icyb.net.ua) Message-ID: <4BA22A06.1070904@icyb.net.ua> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:26:30 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20100211) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Carsten_B=E4cker?= References: <4BA20A43.10006@demig.de> In-Reply-To: <4BA20A43.10006@demig.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader(8) readin failed on 7.2R and later including 8.0R X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:26:34 -0000 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