From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 25 07:13:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA19156 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 07:13:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA19151 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 07:13:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-126.laker.net [208.0.233.26]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id KAA09650; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:12:38 -0500 Message-Id: <199810251512.KAA09650@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Geoffrey Robinson" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:11:21 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Installing on a System with Too Much RAM Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:45:16 -0400, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: >Steve Friedrich wrote: >> >> On Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:30:03 -0400, Geoffrey Robinson wrote: >> >> >No, the panic occurs immediately after the kernel configuration menu. >> >> What message does the panic spit out? If there are multiple messages, >> the first one is very important. > > >This is the exact error message > > panic: bounce memory out of range > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort The GENERIC kernel has: options BOUNCE_BUFFERS #include support for DMA bounce buffers and LINT says: # BOUNCE_BUFFERS provides support for ISA DMA on machines with more # than 16 megabytes of memory. It doesn't hurt on other machines. # Some broken EISA and VLB hardware may need this, too. The way I read this, is that it should work by default. Anyone know about this buffer option?? Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message