panic: no BIOS SMAP info from loader

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 05 November 2007 11:48:07 am Bob Johnson wrote:
> On 11/5/07, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > My web searches on this indicated that when HP first introduced these
> > systems, they had the same problem with Linux. HP provided a patch
> > that allows recent Linux kernels to boot. Older i386 FreeBSDs also can
> > not boot on my HP dc7700. So it appears someone has already fixed this
> > for i386, but no one has moved it to AMD64.
> >
> > I don't remember which i386 versions work or don't work, but I can
> > start booting install disks and find out.
> 
> Hmmm. Maybe I should retract that. I cannot find an i386 install CD
> that won't boot on it. I've tried 7.0-BETA1, 6.2-STABLEsnap200708,
> 6.2-RC1, 6.1-RELEASE, 6.0-BETA2, 6.0-BETA1, 5.3-RC1 (hangs probing
> ATA1), 4.5-RELEASE, and 4.3-RELEASE. But I thought I remembered being
> unable to boot some i386 install CDs in it.

Without an SMAP, FreeBSD/i386 is only going to find about 64M of RAM on the 
box though.  Do you know what the patch was that HP provided for Linux?  I 
wasn't able to find it.  If you disable ACPI is FreeBSD/i386 able to see all 
of the RAM in the box?

-- 
John Baldwin