From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 5 20:26:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EBA116A421; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:26:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from angel.ticketswitch.com (angel.ticketswitch.com [IPv6:2002:57e0:1d4e::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC47C13C4B6; Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:26:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from smaug.rattatosk ([10.50.50.2]) by angel.ticketswitch.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ip8WJ-0001XJ-8e; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:26:03 +0000 Received: from dilbert.rattatosk ([10.50.50.6] helo=dilbert.ticketswitch.com) by smaug.rattatosk with esmtp (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ip8WJ-0009b2-6e; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:26:03 +0000 Received: from petefrench by dilbert.ticketswitch.com with local (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ip8WJ-0008M0-71; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:26:03 +0000 To: fbsdlists@gmail.com, jhb@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200711051415.53489.jhb@freebsd.org> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:26:03 +0000 Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: no BIOS SMAP info from loader X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:26:04 -0000 > Without an SMAP, FreeBSD/i386 is only going to find about 64M of RAM on the > box though. Do you know what the patch was that HP provided for Linux? I > wasn't able to find it. If you disable ACPI is FreeBSD/i386 able to see all > of the RAM in the box? I have an HP dc5750 which arrivd on my desk today and have spent the day wrestling with much the same problems as referred to here! Like you say, it only sees 64M of memory on boot, so you have to set hw.physmem in loader.conf to make it use the RAM. It will not boot with ACPI enabled at all either - has to boot ACPI disabled. Also it will noot boot amd64, not from the CD or from an install on the hard drive. That always fails with the error message described in the subject line. I am rather wishing I had waited before buying the machine and seen this thread, as the purpose was to have a test amd64 desktop :-( But... it here, and its running, and I have a lot of space to test various OS'es on it as required. Currently has 6.3-BETA for both i386 and amd64 installed (of which only one will bot obviously). cheers, -pete.