From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 15 16:27:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808431065670 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:27:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E22E8FC20 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.19]) by qmta07.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id K07t1f0030QuhwU574THam; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:27:17 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.41.155]) by omta02.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id K4TF1f0093LrwQ23N4TGX0; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:27:16 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 146189B418; Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:27:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 09:27:14 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Sean Bruno Message-ID: <20101015162714.GA12400@icarus.home.lan> References: <1287158693.5225.7.camel@home-yahoo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1287158693.5225.7.camel@home-yahoo> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: kpanic on install >32GB of RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:27:17 -0000 On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:04:53AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > So, trying to get a massively overpowered HP box up with 7.3 amd64 > version up and running. > > I can't tell at the moment, but it looks like the installer kernel is > having issues with >32GB of RAM in this box. > > Are we using the i386 kernel on amd64 installs? If you booted a FreeBSD image that has "amd64" in the ISO name, then the kernel is actually 64-bit (amd64). The only i386 piece would be the bootloader. There's probably someone here who can help with the issue you describe, as there's occasional posts here and there from people who experience issues/problems when using very large amounts of RAM. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |