From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 11 0: 8:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77ACC37B416 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:08:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:08:20 +0100 Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA247@l04.research.kpn.com> From: "Koster, K.J." To: 'Wilko Bulte' Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: as2100 saga continues: memory trouble? *sigh* Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 09:08:20 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dear Wilko, > > > > > > Suppose that I know the bad memory range, any way of > > > telling FreeBSD not to > > > use it? Perhaps abuse the option ROM device to claim > > > that memory range for itself? > > > > I have another idea.. install from Wilko's mininst CDROM. Alpha now > > (after 4.4-RELEASE) has support for setting hw.physmem to limit the > > amount of memory freebsd uses (settable from the boot loader). > Yesterday I finally found the five minutes needed to burn the image and test the install. press any key to boot 1..2 ok set hw.physmem=32M ok boot <> :( Kees Jan ===================================================== You can't have everything. Where would you put it? [Steven Wright] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message