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Old 2nd June 2012
opendaemon opendaemon is offline
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Default ThinkPad T30 memory conflict

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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
  • What is the error reported when installing?
During reboot from CD, after the boot prompt and when the kernel loads
...
mem address conflict 0x50000000/0x1000
mem address conflict 0x51000000/0x1000
...

This is the normal screen we see when OpenBSD boots up.

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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
  • What version of OpenBSD is being installed?
OpenBSD 4.9 and OpenBSD 5.1

I may be able to get to the shell and exclude the memory in /etc/boot.conf.
I tried on the boot prompt 'boot>'

machine mem -0x100000@0x50000000

and pressed return. It does not seem to recognize the memory exclusion. Is my attempt correct?

Last edited by opendaemon; 2nd June 2012 at 10:06 PM. Reason: Subject missing
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