On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Erik Carlseen  wrote:

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> Does anyone know if this issue has been resolved? I'm trying to boot and

> OpenBSD 4.4 AMD64 CD on an HP BL465c-G1 (dual Opteron 2216HE CPUs, 8GB RAM)

> and getting the following during the boot process (this is transcribed

> manually, so I apologize in advance for any typos):

>

>   CD-ROM: 9F

>   Loading /4.4/AMD64/CDBOOT

>   probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem[637K 255M 256M 2814M 4853M a20=on]

>   disk: fd0 fd1 hd0+* cd0

>   >> OpenBSD/amd64 CDBOOT 2.01

>   boot> machine memory

>   Region 0: type 1 at 0x0 for 637KB

>   Region 1: type 2 at 0x9f400 for 3KB

>   Region 2: type 2 at 0xf0000 for 64KB

>   Region 3: type 1 at 0x100000 for 261120KB

>   Region 4: type 1 at 0x10000000 for 262144KB

>   Region 5: type 1 at 0x20000000 for 2881851KB

>   Region 6: type 3 at 0xcfe4efc0 for 32KB

>   Region 7: type 1 at 0xcfe56fc0 for 4 KB

>   Region 8: type 2 at 0xcfe57fc0 for 1696KB

>   Region 9: type 2 at 0xfec00000 for 1024KB

>   Region 10: type 2 at 0xfee00000 for 64KB

>   Region 11: type 2 at 0xffc00000 for 4096KB

>   Region 12: type 1 at 0x1000000000 for 4980732KB

Something like machine memory -0x4000000000@0x1000000000 here.  Check

the numbers, and I've never actually tried this.
>   Low ram: 637KB  High ram: 3405115KB

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>   Total free memory: 8386488KB

>   boot> boot

>   booting cd0a:/4.4/amd64/bsd.rd: 2561344+548422+2799208+0+492560

> [80+259200+161660]=0xa82360

>   entry point at 0x1001e0 [7205c766, 34000004, 2448b12, 840a304]

>   Ignoring 4863MB above 4GB

>   panic: init_x86_64: can't find end of memory

>

>   The operating system has halted.   Please press any key to reboot.

>

> Is there any way to get this to start, other than driving my lazy self 100

> miles to the data center and yanking 4GB out of it?

>

> Any help, thoughts, and criticism that doesn't involve suicide booths  is

> appreciated.

>

> -Erik