Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:49:22AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 06:16:09PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M. > > > > > > > > When we try an install from the floppies, the mfsroot floppies > > > > panics with

Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID

1999-09-28 Thread Mike Smith
> On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 06:16:09PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > > We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M. > > > > > > When we try an install from the floppies, the mfsroot floppies > > > panics with an 'pmap_enter: invalid page directory, pdir=0x601063, > > > va=0xc24

Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID

1999-09-27 Thread Brian Reichert
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 06:16:09PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M. > > > > When we try an install from the floppies, the mfsroot floppies > > panics with an 'pmap_enter: invalid page directory, pdir=0x601063, > > va=0xc240'. > >

Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID

1999-09-26 Thread Mike Smith
> I've pored over -question, to no avail, so here goes. > > We are trying to install FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge > 6300. > > Said beast has a DPT SmartRAID IV controller, and 2G of memory. > > We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M. > > When we try an ins

Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID

1999-09-24 Thread Glenn Chisholm
The standard boot disks seem to have a problem with more than 512MB of memory. I encountered this recently, I pulled out all but 512MB of memory and installed. All worked perfectly and then increased the memory up to 2GB with the installed running version. All worked well. It seems there was a is

3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID

1999-09-24 Thread Brian Reichert
I've pored over -question, to no avail, so here goes. We are trying to install FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 6300. Said beast has a DPT SmartRAID IV controller, and 2G of memory. We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M. When we try an install from the floppi