Pre-loaded mfsroot size and FreeBSD 4.9 with 4G RAM

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:41:41PM +0200, Jacques Fourie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am pre-loading an image (used as MFS root) from the boot loader on FreeBSD
> 4.9 by using 'load -t mfs_root mfsroot' in loader.conf. The size of this
> image is 64M. If I have 4G of RAM in the machine, the 64M size causes the
> kernel to panic almost immediately. With only 2G of RAM the kernel boots
> without a problem. I have tried to increase the KVA_PAGES value to 512 but
> the kernel still panics. If I decrease the image size to 40M the kernel
> boots successfully on a machine with 4G of RAM. Any ideas as to how I can go
> about finding (or fixing) this problem?

Start by showing the panic ;-)

Kris
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