Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID
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'. I have no idea what this error message means. It suggests that you have memory problems; have you tried physically extracting most of the memory from the system? No; I instead used the BIOS's mechanism for artifically restricting available memory. (I had in fact also tried removing all but 512M from the machine, but to no avail.) The reason I asked about physically removing memory is simply that we've seen a lot of problems with systems that fail due to being electrically overloaded with large memory configurations. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID
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 an 'pmap_enter: invalid page directory, pdir=0x601063, va=0xc240'. I have no idea what this error message means. At this point, I can report full success in getting FreeBSD 3.3-R installed on this machine, with the full @g of physical memory. It would seem that the issue was a bad install lfoppty, but I don't see how, as both disks' compressed kernels were able to boot, uncompress the kernels, and start loading. _That_ was when the the icky trap was happening. Were the boot floppy images updated during the last couple of weeks? -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Crystal Ave. #303Daytime number: (781) 899-7484 x704 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID
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'. I have no idea what this error message means. It suggests that you have memory problems; have you tried physically extracting most of the memory from the system? No; I instead used the BIOS's mechanism for artifically restricting available memory. (I had in fact also tried removing all but 512M from the machine, but to no avail.) I do have an update, however, I re-generated the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppies, and now, I can successfully launch the install program. We are re-configuring the RIAD controller now; once we have a core OS, with all memory enabled, I'll repor back... -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Crystal Ave. #303Daytime number: (781) 899-7484 x704 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID
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 floppies, the mfsroot floppies panics with an 'pmap_enter: invalid page directory, pdir=0x601063, va=0xc240'. I have no idea what this error message means. It suggests that you have memory problems; have you tried physically extracting most of the memory from the system? -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID
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 issue that was corrected a search on the FreeBSD site will turn up the reference. For some reason the fix that was commited missed the boot disk. I experienced this in 3.1 and 3.2. I will note that when I attempted to add more than 2GB the machine would panic on boot again. Unfortunatly I did not own this machine so I only had it for a short period so I could do no usefull debugging on either problem. I forgot to post this problem so it may be fixed :-( glenn 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 floppies, the mfsroot floppies panics with an 'pmap_enter: invalid page directory, pdir=0x601063, va=0xc240'. I have no idea what this error message means. When I try to install from the CDs fro 3.1-R (latest I have on hand), I get a crash (just a dump of registers , and a 'halted' message). I can get details, if it's felt to be important. Any pointers? -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (781) 899-7484 x704 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
