8.2R i386 bassed md root, doesn't like all machines

[Mark Tinguely]

On 9/1/2011 8:17 AM, rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> Works excellent!
> I boot it from USB stick.
>
> Now I added ~150 MB of ports to it.
>  From that point on, it doesn't boot on all machines.
>
> Booting 2 times in a row on laptop with 4 gb ram:
> http://www.starforce.biz/md_root_1.jpg
> http://www.starforce.biz/md_root_2.jpg
>
> Without ports, it did booted fine!
>
> Then I plug it in desktop with 2 GB of ram and booted it and it works!
> I've did it again, just to be sure.
>
> Back to my laptop and same fail again.
>
>
> Domagoj Smolčić
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This must be a 32 bit i386 kernel.

 From the vm_thread_new() error messages, your kernel virtual memory map 
is depleted.

The OS uses KVA for a physical page attribute table. Therefore the 4GB 
machine will use more KVA than a 2GB. Apparently this difference is a 
enough to cause you problems.

Either increase your KVA (KVA_PAGES setting in your kernel configuration 
file; see sys/i386/include/pmap.h look for values) or decrease your KVA 
use (memory drive?).

--Mark