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Date:      Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:16:09 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Brian Reichert <reichert@numachi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID 
Message-ID:  <199909270116.SAA15376@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:09:56 EDT." <19990924150956.C5560@numachi.com> 

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> 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? 

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