From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 19:42:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0732A106566C for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:42:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outO.internet-mail-service.net (outo.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.238]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D688C8FC17 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:42:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:14:35 -0700 Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005CD2D61A6; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:42:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47EFED3A.90908@elischer.org> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:42:50 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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> In-Reply-To: <1905940611.20080330225526@masm.elcom.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Thierry Herbelot Subject: Re: FreeBSD Failures on Pentium E2180 with nForce nf-610i Chipset mb Asustek P5N-MX X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:42:52 -0000 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).