Instant reboot with FreeBSD 6.3 and > 2GB RAM

[Vivek Khera]

On May 21, 2008, at 4:01 AM, votdev at gmx.de wrote:

> some users of FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD 6.3 reported instant  
> reboots on systems with > 2GB RAM (most of them use 4GB). The reboot  
> occurs right after displaying the FreeBSD loader menu. Most of them  
> told me that they can boot if they reduce RAM to <= 2GB.

For what it's worth, I have run several systems with 4GB RAM on  
FreeBSD/i386 6.3.  The only i386 I have left with this much RAM was  
recently upgraded to 7.0; the rest of my large RAM systems run FreeBSD/ 
amd64.

I didn't see anything obviously bad in your kernel config.

By the way, thanks for making FreeNAS... I use it on my home NFS/AFP  
server to great success... the only thing I wish it included was the  
amrstat binary to test my LSI RAID controller status (I just copy it  
from another 6.3 system I have and it works).