From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 4 19:00:20 1997 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current> Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA03090 for current-outgoing; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:00:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp13.portal.net.au [202.12.71.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA03073 for <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 4 Nov 1997 19:00:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00615; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 13:26:08 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199711050256.NAA00615@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: kingson@excite.com cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: memory out of range??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Nov 1997 17:07:27 -0800." <345FC6CF.73D2D1A4@excite.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 13:26:07 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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