From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 26 18:23:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles530.castles.com [208.214.165.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 074FD14F86 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:23:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15376; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:16:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909270116.SAA15376@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Reichert Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:09:56 EDT." <19990924150956.C5560@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:16:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I've pored over -question, to no avail, so here goes. > > We are trying to install FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge > 6300. > > Said beast has a DPT SmartRAID IV controller, and 2G of memory. > > We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M. > > When we try an install from the floppies, the mfsroot floppies > panics with an 'pmap_enter: invalid page directory, pdir=0x601063, > va=0xc2400000'. > > I have no idea what this error message means. It suggests that you have memory problems; have you tried physically extracting most of the memory from the system? -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message