Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 10:11:21 -0500 From: "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com> To: "Geoffrey Robinson" <geoffr@globalserve.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installing on a System with Too Much RAM Message-ID: <199810251512.KAA09650@laker.net>
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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
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