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Date:      Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:42:50 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Failures on Pentium E2180 with nForce nf-610i Chipset mb Asustek P5N-MX
Message-ID:  <47EFED3A.90908@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <1905940611.20080330225526@masm.elcom.ru>
References:  <1431112639.20080330193955@masm.elcom.ru>	<200803301944.09632.thierry@herbelot.com>	<763357035.20080330223514@masm.elcom.ru>	<200803302049.43877.thierry@herbelot.com> <1905940611.20080330225526@masm.elcom.ru>

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Victor M. Blood wrote:
> On 30.03.2008, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
>> Le Sunday 30 March 2008, Victor M. Blood a ecrit :
>>> Yes, but previous log it's all that I received from com-console before
>>> system going down.
>>>
>>> Now I try to adding
>>> hw.physmem="1G" to /boot/defaults/loader.conf
>>> and boot with -ghvs
>>>
>>> System boot up! :)
>>>
>>> New question: How I can to force system work with 2 Gb of memory, or I
>>> do not understand corectly man page loader (8) and it's restrictions
>>> only then system is bootup and 2Gb of memory will be accesable after
>>> load?
> 
>> Hello,
> 
>> good news if the machine starts correctly !
> 
>> the next step is finding the conditions when the machine does not start, and
>> get a verbose log.
> 
> http://elcom.ru/~masm/boot-gsvh.log
> 
> Problem with 2Gb of memory? WinXP startup and work correct. Without
> hw.physmem="1G" kernel don't start and no any log can be made.
> 
> 

It might be a bios problem..
The Bios might be reporting memory in a way that gives us indigestion.

what if you set the memory by hand to the amount that is there.. (try 
2047 MB for example).


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