Re: NetBSD 6.0 fails to boot on large server

[Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 17/01/2013 7:12 PM, David Laight wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:47:50AM +0100, Darren Reed wrote:
>> I tried to boot 6.0 (could not find the -current ISO) on one of the
>> larger servers that I have access to...
>>
>> It didn't go very well.
>>
>> Once the boot loader started to happen, the updates through the ILO
>> screen were very slow...
>>
>> http://imgur.com/a/y3zel
>>
>> The last message about "cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0" has been there for ~10
>> minutes
>>
>> The "total memory" is out by around 522405MB.
> 
> How much memory and how many cpus should there be?
> Any idea how many different memory regions?
> (I remember something about the system not like lots of memory regions.)

512G, 8 CPUs in one of these:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/5u/5086/sys-5086b-trf.cfm

Darren