From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 6 7:46:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4693837B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 07:46:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D04C43EC2 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 07:46:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA25806; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:46:12 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id gB6Fjgs95566; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:45:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15856.50726.647449.10642@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:45:42 -0500 (EST) To: Jan Lentfer Cc: Subject: Re: Memory Problems In-Reply-To: <1039189222.3df0c4e62256c@www-mail.floundjan.homeip.net> References: <20021206083651.C66664-100000@dove.penix.org> <1039183724.3df0af6cec2b7@www-mail.floundjan.homeip.net> <1039189222.3df0c4e62256c@www-mail.floundjan.homeip.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jan Lentfer writes: > I investigated a little more because I can't believe this is a memory/hw problem > (the kernel does boot!). I booted a 4.6 Installation CD - same error when > Initializing SCSI disks. > So I put in a Debian-3.0 Install CD -> all SCSI disks get initialised and I get > to a shell. dmesg on Dbian shows all the hardware and 512MB of RAM. > So to me this looks more like a FreeBSD/Kernel problem than a hardware problem. > > Any ideas? Maybe linux puts its memory in a different place and you'll get screwed later rather than sooner. We have no problems with 1GB or less of *good* memory on a miata. Sorry. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message