Bug#652448: panic when booting on a machine with >= 4 GiB of RAM
Package: kfreebsd-image-9.0-0-686
Version: 9.0~svn228246-1
Severity: important
kfreebsd-image-9.0-0-686 (and most likely all IA32 flavours that don't use PAE)
panics when booting on a machine with 4 GiB of RAM (or more).
Possible ways out of this:
- Enable PAE for all flavours. There are major drawbacks, see:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
- Add additional flavours (which ones? 686, 686-smp ... ? and then which
ones to provide with D-I?)
- Fail gracefuly and prompt user to either remove RAM or use AMD64 version
Please comment!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: kfreebsd-amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.1-1-amd64
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages kfreebsd-image-9.0-0-686 depends on:
ii freebsd-utils 8.1-5 FreeBSD utilities needed for GNU/k
ii kldutils 8.1-5 tools for managing kFreeBSD module
Versions of packages kfreebsd-image-9.0-0-686 recommends:
pn libc0.1-i686 <none> (no description available)
kfreebsd-image-9.0-0-686 suggests no packages.
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