On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:43:06PM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote: > Hello, > > I just tried booting a FreeBSD-6.1-RC1/amd64 CD in a machine with an > Athlon-64 X2 4400+ and 4GB of memory. > > The mainboard is an Asus A8V-E-SE. > > The kernel displays its copyright and then crashes almost instantly. The > screen is filled with the letter 'k' and the machine reboots soon after > that. > > Here is a copy of the verbose boot messages (transcripted by hand): > > SMAP type=01 base=0000000000000000 len=000000000009f400 > SMAP type=02 base=00000000000f0000 len=0000000000010000 > SMAP type=02 base=00000000fec00000 len=0000000001400000 > SMAP type=02 base=00000000e0000000 len=0000000010000000 > SMAP type=03 base=00000000afee3000 len=000000000000d000 > SMAP type=04 base=00000000afee0000 len=0000000000003000 > SMAP type=02 base=000000000009f400 len=0000000000000c00 > SMAP type=02 base=00000000afef0000 len=0000000000010000 > SMAP type=01 base=0000000000100000 len=00000000afde0000 > SMAP type=01 base=0000000100000000 len=0000000050000000 > Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 6.1-RC1 #0: Mon Apr 10 20:16:14 UTC 2006 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > > (crash here) > > If the memory is limited to 3GB in the BIOS, FreeBSD boots as expected. > > I would appreciate if someone could share some insight about this problem.
Replace the broken 1GB memory stick? :-) Kris
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