[rescue] FSCKing OpenBSD!

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Feb 14 13:07:24 CST 2002


On February 13, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> The bug seems to be tickled by certain memory configurations, since
> each bank is mapped into a different range of virtual addresses and
> those virtual addresses are not contiguous (IIRC). In fact with one
> RAM config under 2.8 I could not get the floppy to successfully boot.

  That's pretty strange; the NetBSD/sparc code base has handled
noncontiguous physical memory since easily the 1.2 days, and the
OpenBSD people have, erm, "updated" their source code many times since
then.  This shouldn't be an issue...I have to wonder if it's something
else.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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