Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 06:25:06 -0700 (PDT) From: kositsyn@chas.ru To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/21025: BTX loader 1.00 gets 1Gb of memory from BIOS instead of 56Kb Message-ID: <20000904132506.56A1737B422@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 21025 >Category: misc >Synopsis: BTX loader 1.00 gets 1Gb of memory from BIOS instead of 56Kb >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Sep 04 06:30:01 PDT 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Andrew Kositsyn >Release: 4.1-RELEASE >Organization: JSCB Private Bank Ltd >Environment: BTX loader 1.00 BTX verion is 1.01 AcerAltos 9000V 2xP100, 56Mb in 8 SIMMs, AIC7880P >Description: When booting from installation diskettes ACER BIOS shows following: Base Memory : 640 KB Extended Memory : 56320 KB while BTX loader shows another picture: BIOS 639kB/1070100kB available memory And when the loader starts kernel PC's screen flashes several times and machine reboots. While the screen is flashing I can see a part of 'To many holes at ... memory' message. My older FreeBSD boot loader shows following and everything worked well >How-To-Repeat: Every try to install the system. >Fix: Nope :( >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: >> FreeBSD BOOT @ 0x10000: 639/56320 k of memory, internal console The diskette set is good because it works well for the other computers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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