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Re: Installation Problem on Sun Fire V240



On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:37:26PM -0700, Tyler wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> >>If the upper 32-bits of some parameter we pass in has garbage in
> >>it, we'll totally die in the firmware.
> >>
> >>It's something to consider.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when looking into this. Just wish I could
> >reproduce it.
> > 
> >
> 
> Ben, could it be a timing issue? ... one thing I can think of is that a 
> CD is not going to be able to get to data as quickly as a hard drive 
> does.  The error message mentions "fast mmu access" .. only a guess.. 
> but thought I would share :)

By the time this message hits we've already loaded the kernel and the
initrd from the cd into memory. There's no cd access after that.

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