On 5/19/05, Need Coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been searching but can't find anything concrete... amd64.html > and the FAQ's amd64 section do not mention any problems, so I'm > asking here. (I found little bits here and there about this problem > affecting a lot of freenixes but nothing tangible. Apologies if I've > missed something major...) > > Trying to boot a sun v40z with >4GB RAM fails with OpenBSD/amd64 > 3.6 and 3.7-current from yesterday. i386 3.7-current works. > > (begin snippet from amd64 3.7-current from yesterday) > > >> OpenBSD/amd64 PXEBOOT 1.06 > booting tftp:bsd.rd: 1468848+300494+2137464+0+469256 > [80+156528+90879]=0x8692c8 > entry point at 0x1001e0 [7205c766, 34000004, 24448612, 68a0a304] > WARNING: CAN'T ALLOCATE EXTENDED MEMORY FROM IOMEM EXTENT MAP! > skipping 3824615424 bytes of memory above 4GB > panic: init_x86_64: can't find end of memory > > The operating system has halted. > Please press any key to reboot. > > (end snippet) > > Removing all but 4GB of memory allows the system to boot without > issue. > > So, the inevitable question: is there any workaround or fix in > development that I may test? I would happily do so. Should I > sendbug(1) this? My guess is that this is already well known to > everyone except me... > > Thanks in advance. > >
If I understand and remember things correctly, the boot code is still 32bit.
