Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:19:37 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua> To: Barry Lustig <barry@lustig.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot time memory issue Message-ID: <20010525091937.B774@iv.nn.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <3B0858F9.1E483EEE@lustig.com>; from barry@lustig.com on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:53:29PM -0400 References: <3B0858F9.1E483EEE@lustig.com>
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Sun, May 20, 2001 at 19:53:29, barry (Barry Lustig) wrote about "Boot time memory issue": Do verbose boot (`boot -v') with large SC_HISTORY_SIZE (1000 at least, 2000 at most), and after boot check for "SMAP ..." lines at the very beginning of the kernel boot log at /dev/console. (They are not written to log viewable with dmesg.) Another way is to use serial console. With this SMAP lines one can say more concrete diagnosis. > I was curious whether the memory limitation on the Sony VAIO Z505 > machines was an actual hardware limitation or a marketing issue. I just > tried adding a 256MB module to my machine. The BIOS seemed to mostly > recognize it. > It did see 320MB of RAM, but had problems when testing all of it. > Current (from > a couple of weeks ago) boots, but gives me: > Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up > > and comes up showing 64MB of RAM. Is this something that can be worked > around, or have I run up against an actual hardware limit on the > machine? /netch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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