On 21 October 2012 12:49, andrew clarke <m...@ozzmosis.com> wrote: > On Sun 2012-10-21 18:21:59 UTC+0200, Patrick Lamaiziere > (patf...@davenulle.org) wrote: > >> I'm updating an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.1 with 64 MB ram (44MB >> available) but now FreeBSD 9.1 panics at boot time: >> >> panic: kmem_malloc(4194304): kmem_map too small: 24584192 allocated? > > That's one very old laptop. I think you'll need to install more memory > or downgrade FreeBSD to an earlier version. > > 9.1-RELEASE isn't available yet, only 9.1-RC1 & RC2. Given it's > prerelease code it's plausible the 9.1-RC2 kernel requires more memory > at boot than 9.1-REL will. Attempting to boot 9.0-REL from CD on your > laptop should answer that question. > > From my limited testing under VirtualBox, 96 MB RAM is about the lower > limit that will allow FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 to boot before the swap > partition is enabled. Any less and the kernel will freeze or panic at > boot. This was with the amd64 version though, not i386.
Keep in mind that the installer will take some memory on top of what is needed to boot FreeBSD. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
