On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:38 -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 09:30 -0700, Boris Kochergin wrote: > > > On 10/15/10 12:27, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:04:53AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > >> So, trying to get a massively overpowered HP box up with 7.3 amd64 > > > >> version up and running. > > > >> > > > >> I can't tell at the moment, but it looks like the installer kernel is > > > >> having issues with>32GB of RAM in this box. > > > >> > > > >> Are we using the i386 kernel on amd64 installs? > > > > If you booted a FreeBSD image that has "amd64" in the ISO name, then the > > > > kernel is actually 64-bit (amd64). The only i386 piece would be the > > > > bootloader. > > > > > > > > There's probably someone here who can help with the issue you describe, > > > > as there's occasional posts here and there from people who experience > > > > issues/problems when using very large amounts of RAM. > > > > > > > I've got an amd64 machine with 48 GB of RAM that has run 7, 8, and now > > > 9, which leads me to believe that your issue is not solely related to > > > the amount of memory. > > > > > > -Boris > > > __________ > > > > Edge case at 64G perhaps? That's the minimum you can get in the HP > > DL980 apparently. > > > > Sean > > Hrm, no success today setting available RAM to 32G and reducing the > number of processors to 8. > > I've disabled and tweaked pretty much everything available to me here > and have tried to boot up the fbsd 8 install media with the same result > as using the fbsd 7 media: Repeated and continuous panics on all > processors simultaneously after selecting install method from the boot > menu. > > Not sure what to do at this point to get the system up and running. > Suggestions?
Can you boot a Linux liveCD installation of some sort for comparison? That would possibly rule out OS vs. hardware/BIOS ordeals. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
