From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 16 20:16:05 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 855BA106566B for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:16:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.243]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698B78FC0A for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.27]) by qmta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KXp11f0030b6N64ADYG4u9; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:16:04 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.41.155]) by omta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id KYG31f00D3LrwQ28PYG41b; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:16:04 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B1EFC9B418; Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:16:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:16:03 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: sbruno@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20101016201603.GA9807@icarus.home.lan> References: <1287158693.5225.7.camel@home-yahoo> <20101015162714.GA12400@icarus.home.lan> <4CB881AF.1080708@acm.poly.edu> <1287160697.5225.14.camel@home-yahoo> <1287258720.2522.26.camel@home-yahoo> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1287258720.2522.26.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: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:16:05 -0000 On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:38 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:30 -0700, Boris Kochergin wrote: > > > On 10/15/10 12:27, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > > I've got an amd64 machine with 48 GB of RAM that has run 7, 8, and now > > > 9, which leads me to believe that your issue is not solely related to > > > the amount of memory. > > > > > > -Boris > > > __________ > > > > Edge case at 64G perhaps? That's the minimum you can get in the HP > > DL980 apparently. > > > > Sean > > Hrm, no success today setting available RAM to 32G and reducing the > number of processors to 8. > > I've disabled and tweaked pretty much everything available to me here > and have tried to boot up the fbsd 8 install media with the same result > as using the fbsd 7 media: Repeated and continuous panics on all > processors simultaneously after selecting install method from the boot > menu. > > Not sure what to do at this point to get the system up and running. > Suggestions? Can you boot a Linux liveCD installation of some sort for comparison? That would possibly rule out OS vs. hardware/BIOS ordeals. -- | 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 |