Erik Carlseen wrote:
Ted Unangst wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Erik Carlseen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Does anyone know if this issue has been resolved? I'm trying to boot
and
OpenBSD 4.4 AMD64 CD on an HP BL465c-G1 (dual Opteron 2216HE CPUs,
8GB RAM)
and getting the following during the boot process (this is transcribed
manually, so I apologize in advance for any typos):
CD-ROM: 9F
Loading /4.4/AMD64/CDBOOT
probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem[637K 255M 256M 2814M 4853M a20=on]
disk: fd0 fd1 hd0+* cd0
>> OpenBSD/amd64 CDBOOT 2.01
boot> machine memory
Region 0: type 1 at 0x0 for 637KB
Region 1: type 2 at 0x9f400 for 3KB
Region 2: type 2 at 0xf0000 for 64KB
Region 3: type 1 at 0x100000 for 261120KB
Region 4: type 1 at 0x10000000 for 262144KB
Region 5: type 1 at 0x20000000 for 2881851KB
Region 6: type 3 at 0xcfe4efc0 for 32KB
Region 7: type 1 at 0xcfe56fc0 for 4 KB
Region 8: type 2 at 0xcfe57fc0 for 1696KB
Region 9: type 2 at 0xfec00000 for 1024KB
Region 10: type 2 at 0xfee00000 for 64KB
Region 11: type 2 at 0xffc00000 for 4096KB
Region 12: type 1 at 0x1000000000 for 4980732KB
Something like machine memory [EMAIL PROTECTED] here. Check
the numbers, and I've never actually tried this.
Ted, thanks for the suggestion... I new think I've gotten the hang of
this "removing memory blocks" thing but it hasn't gotten me very far
(see below).
Low ram: 637KB High ram: 3405115KB
Total free memory: 8386488KB
boot> boot
booting cd0a:/4.4/amd64/bsd.rd: 2561344+548422+2799208+0+492560
[80+259200+161660]=0xa82360
entry point at 0x1001e0 [7205c766, 34000004, 2448b12, 840a304]
Ignoring 4863MB above 4GB
panic: init_x86_64: can't find end of memory
The operating system has halted. Please press any key to reboot.
Is there any way to get this to start, other than driving my lazy
self 100
miles to the data center and yanking 4GB out of it?
Any help, thoughts, and criticism that doesn't involve suicide
booths is
appreciated.
-Erik
I started out getting rid of Region 12 with this command:
machine memory [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No dice - same problem. So in addition to axing Region 12, I tried
paring down Region 5 bit-by-bit (pun semi-intended), to the point
where I was eliminating it completely:
machine memory [EMAIL PROTECTED]
machine memory [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I rounded the value up a bit - there seems to be a rounding error
in the amount of memory reported; this seems to get rid of it without
affecting the next block. In any case, it still wouldn't boot. I got
extreme and eliminated Regions 5, 6, and 12:
machine memory [EMAIL PROTECTED]
machine memory [EMAIL PROTECTED]
machine memory [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm down to just under 256MB of RAM and I'm still stuck on the same
error during the boot process. It's still exactly the same as
transcribed below, except that the "Ignoring 4863MB above 4GB" message
is no longer there (for obvious reasons).
Any additional ideas would be appreciated.
-Erik
Apparently I've fixed my own problem - I needed to also delete the
memory at Region 6 with this command:
machine memory [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'll try adding back in some of the other regions and post my results to
the list in case anyone else winds up with the same problem.
-Erik
