On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 09:08:18AM +1000, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> > how much memory does the machine have?
> 
> This Dell R830 has 512GB of RAM (which is the definitely the biggest machine 
> I've ever tried to install OpenBSD on).  There is a decent delay between the 
> copyright message and the page fault.
> 
> It's destined to go into production as a Linux-based hypervisor (sorry), but 
> I've got some time with it before that needs to happen so I thought I'd try 
> to spin up OpenBSD on it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adrian Close
> 

Your crash pointed to something in pagezero, and the faulting address
was something really odd.

Can you show the output of "mach mem" from boot>   ?

512GB is the limit for physmem in OpenBSD amd64 (I believe, last time I looked,
unless someone upped it). It's possible the bios remapped some memory past
512GB and we got confused.

-ml

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