Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 13:26:07 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: kingson@excite.com Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory out of range??? Message-ID: <199711050256.NAA00615@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Nov 1997 17:07:27 -0800." <345FC6CF.73D2D1A4@excite.com>
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> I have the following setup/config: > Tyan m/b Tahoe series Dual P-II/266 with 1GB memory (yes, 1024MB of > RAM). > DPT smartraid-4 (UW), Adaptec 2940UW > Matshita CD-ROM (SCSI) > 8 IBM UW SCSI 4.1GB drives (7 configured as raid attached to DPT, the > rest attached to the Adaptec). Hmm, nice configuration. I am presuming you'll be looking at the DPT driver soon? > I made the boot floppy from the image in the > current.freebsd.org:/pub/3.0-971101-SNAP/floppies. > I know this boot floppy will not recognize the DPT controller. However, > the boot floppy crashed with: > "bounced memory: out of range" (or something like that) > right after the install config screen. > > Any idea? Yup. You have too much memory for the "BOUNCE_BUFFERS" option, which is part of the boot floppy's configuration (in order to support slightly lower-end systems 8). If you can temporarily remove most of your memory until after you've installed and built a new kernel, you'll be fine. mike
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