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Subject: Re: amd64/128978: [install] FreeBSD 6.3 64-bit panics at boot time
	during installation on HP DL580 G5 with 128GB physical memory
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Synopsis: [install] FreeBSD 6.3 64-bit  panics at boot time during installation on HP DL580 G5 with 128GB physical memory

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Feedback was received on this some time ago.  Although FreeBSD 7 is happy
with 128G RAM, FreeBSD 6.x cannot boot.  I don't know if setting something like
'options KVA_PAGES=512' in the kernel may help?  It might be worth trying.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128978