Can't boot 9.0-RELEASE on sparc64

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at acm.org
Sat Jan 21 20:56:40 UTC 2012


On 2012-Jan-15 17:02:33 +0100, "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost at cordula.ws> wrote:
>I'm trying to boot 9.0-RELEASE on sparc64, but I'm
>getting stuck at:
>
>panic: kmem_suballoc: bad status return of 3
>cpuid = 0
>KDB: stack backtrace:
> #0 0xc079841c at ??+0
> #1 0xc04ca59c at ??+0
> #2 0xc0487f90 at ??+0
> #3 0xc0098028 at ??+0
>
>I'm not able to break into the kernel debugger from
>there.
>
>This is a SunBlade 1500 with 2GB of RAM, booting
>from cdrom.

For anyone following this on -stable only, it looks like the FreeBSD VM
system doesn't like the RAM layout when a SB1500 has 2GB RAM.  There's
no problem with 1GB or 4GB RAM.  The OP has created sparc64/164227

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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