ia64/72128: 5.3-beta6 doesn't boot

Arun Sharma arun.sharma at intel.com
Fri Oct 8 17:44:57 PDT 2004


On 10/8/2004 2:24 PM, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On 10/7/2004 11:02 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
> 
>> This may be processor-specific.
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72128
> 
> 
> I just tested that the 5.3-beta7 works fine on a 4 way Tiger with 1GB 
> RAM. I don't think there have been critical bug fixes between beta6 and 
> beta7 that affect the tiger. Also, on a 4GB machine, FreeBSD ignores RAM 
> above 1GB.

I meant to say FreeBSD ignores RAM above 4GB physical. So depending on your memory map, this may or may not be a problem.

	-Arun


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