Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 9/25/2011 5:16 AM, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote: > Booting proceeded as expected to the point when CD loader 1.2 was found > and the little rotor started running in the beginning of the line. >>From that moment on there was absolutely no progress. > > Any hints and pointers about what to try next wou

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-26 Thread Ivan Voras
On 25/09/2011 17:04, Mark Felder wrote: > I have an Opteron machine that on both 7.x and 8.x it displays this > behavior. The only fix was to boot from USB and it would get past it. > Weird. Was it also an LSI controller? I had the same problem a month ago. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP di

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-25 Thread Mark Felder
I have an Opteron machine that on both 7.x and 8.x it displays this behavior. The only fix was to boot from USB and it would get past it. Weird. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi, I installed FreeBSD8.2 amd64 the other day on a 98GB RAM machine with 24 CPU's (a supermicro 2U server). Due to this alone, I doubt that the bootloader is limited in any way by the amount of RAM the machine has. However, I experienced the same behavior on several "small" machines (normal PC's

Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory

2011-09-25 Thread Jukka A. Ukkonen
Greetings all, I grabbed the FreeBSD-9.0 beta 2 AMD 64 DVD1 intending to use it for installing FreeBSD 9 on a system with 2 AMD 4162 EE CPUs and 16 GB of physical memory. Booting proceeded as expected to the point when CD loader 1.2 was found and the little rotor started running in the beginning