From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 24 23:20:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from segfault.kiev.ua (segfault.kiev.ua [193.193.193.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A1837B624; Thu, 24 May 2001 23:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by segfault.kiev.ua (8) with UUCP id JHQ07618; Fri, 25 May 2001 09:19:53 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua) Received: (from netch@localhost) by iv.nn.kiev.ua (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4P6JcI01773; Fri, 25 May 2001 09:19:38 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch) Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 09:19:37 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev To: Barry Lustig Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot time memory issue Message-ID: <20010525091937.B774@iv.nn.kiev.ua> References: <3B0858F9.1E483EEE@lustig.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B0858F9.1E483EEE@lustig.com>; from barry@lustig.com on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 07:53:29PM -0400 X-42: On Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sun, May 20, 2001 at 19:53:29, barry (Barry Lustig) wrote about "Boot time memory issue": Do verbose boot (`boot -v') with large SC_HISTORY_SIZE (1000 at least, 2000 at most), and after boot check for "SMAP ..." lines at the very beginning of the kernel boot log at /dev/console. (They are not written to log viewable with dmesg.) Another way is to use serial console. With this SMAP lines one can say more concrete diagnosis. > I was curious whether the memory limitation on the Sony VAIO Z505 > machines was an actual hardware limitation or a marketing issue. I just > tried adding a 256MB module to my machine. The BIOS seemed to mostly > recognize it. > It did see 320MB of RAM, but had problems when testing all of it. > Current (from > a couple of weeks ago) boots, but gives me: > Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up > > and comes up showing 64MB of RAM. Is this something that can be worked > around, or have I run up against an actual hardware limit on the > machine? /netch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message