amd64/128978: FreeBSD 6.3 64-bit panics at boot time during installation on HP DL580 G5 with 128GB physical memory

[Kumar Krishnamoorthy]

>Number:         128978
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD 6.3 64-bit  panics at boot time during installation on HP DL580 G5 with 128GB physical memory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 19 01:00:14 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kumar Krishnamoorthy
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.3 64-bit GA
>Organization:
VMare Inc
>Environment:
NA
>Description:
When I try to install freeBSD-64 6.3 GA on a system with 128GB physical memory, it reports  kmem_suballoc : bad status retirn of 3
panic : kmem_suballoc 

When I read the faq from freebsd site, it mentions that the 64-bit version would support systems upto 1TB of physical memory.

Server used 
-----------
Server Model              : HP ProLoant DL580 G5 
Physical memory installed : 128 GB Installed
ProLiant System BIOS      : P61 (08/08/2007)
CPU                       : 
Proc 1: Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor (2.40 GHz/1066 MHz, 2x4MB L2)
Proc 2: Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor (2.40 GHz/1066 MHz, 2x4MB L2)
Proc 3: Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor (2.40 GHz/1066 MHz, 2x4MB L2)
Proc 4: Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(TM) Processor (2.40 GHz/1066 MHz, 2x4MB L2)

Failure details.
-----------------
ISO used for installation
6.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
.
.
Attempting Boot From CD-ROM
CD Loader 1.2

Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found
Relocating the loader and the BTX
Starting the BTX loader


Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS CD is cd0
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive C: is disk1
BIOS 637kB/3404056kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root at palmer.cse.buffalo.edu, Tue Jan 15 23:20:25 UTC 2008)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x6b30f8 syms=[0x8+0xa10a0+0x8+0x8
8855]


+-----------------------------------------+
 |                                         |
 |                                         |      ______
 |                                         |     |  ____| __ ___  ___
 |          Welcome to FreeBSD!            |     | |__ | '__/ _ \/ _ \
 |                                         |     |  __|| | |  __/  __/
 |                                         |     | |   | | |    |    |
 |  1. Boot FreeBSD [default]              |     |_|   |_|  \___|\___|
 |  2. Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled     |      ____   _____ _____
 |  3. Boot FreeBSD in Safe Mode           |     |  _ \ / ____|  __ \
 |  4. Boot FreeBSD in single user mode    |     | |_) | (___ | |  | |
 |  5. Boot FreeBSD with verbose logging   |     |  _ < \___ \| |  | |
 |  6. Escape to loader prompt             |     | |_) |____) | |__| |
 |  7. Reboot                              |     |     |      |      |
 |                                         |     |____/|_____/|_____/
 |                                         |
 |                                         |
 |                                         |
 |  Select option, [Enter] for default     |
 |  or [Space] to pause timer  8           |
 +-----------------------------------------+


FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jan 16 01:31:10 UTC 2008
  root at palmet.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
kmem_suballoc : bad status retirn of 3
panic : kmem_suballoc
Uptime: 1s




Note : I tried the following things.
a) freeBSD7.0-64 did not panic while installation
b) freeBSD6.3-64 could boot without any problems till 90GB memory on a virtual machine created on ESX40 



Let me know if you need more details for debugging.

>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install freeBSD6.3-64 on a physical machine with 128GB of physical memory
>Fix:


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