I think the bootloader is seeing more RAM than is actually there. Regions
0-15 are contiguous, except for a 256kB hole at 640kB, and total 2.25GB
(2304MB) memory. Not sure about regions 16 & 17, but they're tiny
(~13MB). Region 18 is exactly 510GB, so we have 2.25 + 510 = 512.25 GB, or
256MB mor
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:20:38AM +1000, adr...@close.wattle.id.au wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> > huh? I thought you said it fails after displaying the copyright message.
> > boot> is shown long before that.
>
> Sorry, not enough coffee.
>
> [..snip..]
> >> OpenBSD/amd64 CDBOOT 3.28
> boot> mach mem
>
Hi Job,
>Make a photo to prevent typos.
No problem. I wasn't sure if the list would like attachments, but here it is
(attached).
Thanks,
Adrian Close
Hi Adrian,
Make a photo to prevent typos.
Kind regards,
Job
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:20 AM, wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
>> huh? I thought you said it fails after displaying the copyright message.
>> boot> is shown long before that.
>
> Sorry, not enough coffee.
>
> [..snip..]
>>> OpenBSD/amd64 CDBOO
Hi Mike,
> huh? I thought you said it fails after displaying the copyright message.
> boot> is shown long before that.
Sorry, not enough coffee.
[..snip..]
>> OpenBSD/amd64 CDBOOT 3.28
boot> mach mem
Region 0: type 1 at 0x0 for 624KB
Region 1: type 2 at 0x9c000 for 16KB
Region 2: type 3 at 0xe00
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 09:33:39AM +1000, adr...@close.wattle.id.au wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 09:08:18AM +1000, adr...@close.wattle.id.au wrote:
>
> > Can you show the output of "mach mem" from boot> ?
>
> It faults before it displays the "boot>" prompt, so that's tricky.
>
Hi Mike,
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 09:08:18AM +1000, adr...@close.wattle.id.au wrote:
> Can you show the output of "mach mem" from boot> ?
It faults before it displays the "boot>" prompt, so that's tricky.
Is the result of that still useful if I pull some memory out?
>512GB is the limit for phy
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 09:08:18AM +1000, adr...@close.wattle.id.au wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> > how much memory does the machine have?
>
> This Dell R830 has 512GB of RAM (which is the definitely the biggest machine
> I've ever tried to install OpenBSD on). There is a de
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your reply.
> how much memory does the machine have?
This Dell R830 has 512GB of RAM (which is the definitely the biggest machine
I've ever tried to install OpenBSD on). There is a decent delay between the
copyright message and the page fault.
It's destined to go into pro
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 03:55:34PM +1000, adr...@close.wattle.id.au wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It's been a long time since I posted here, so apologies if I slip up on the
> netiquette.
>
> I'm trying to install on a Dell R830 but I can't get the installer to boot -
> it crashes with a page fault afte
Hi all,
It's been a long time since I posted here, so apologies if I slip up on the
netiquette.
I'm trying to install on a Dell R830 but I can't get the installer to boot - it
crashes with a page fault after displaying the initial copyright message:
[..snip..]
fatal page fault in supervisor mo
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