Panic on installation - kmem_map too small

MrJones · Jun 1, 2009, 7:35 AM

Hi all,

Coming to pfsense from ipcop but have not been able to successfully install. Installing from LiveCD v1.2.2, I am getting this error message:

Panic: kmem_malloc(503316480): kmem_map too small: 4251648 total allocated

Any suggestions?

Hardware is:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
1GB DDR400
250GB SATA HDD

Cry Havok · Jun 1, 2009, 11:23 AM

At what point to you get that message - what are the lines before it?

MrJones · Jun 2, 2009, 3:26 AM

The lines before this are:

acd0: DVDR <hl-dt-st dvdram="" gsa-41638="" a104="">at ata1-masterPI04
ad4: 238475MB <seagate st3250823as="" 3.02="">at ata2-master SATA150</seagate></hl-dt-st>

charliem · Jun 2, 2009, 2:45 PM

Can you try 1.2.3RC1 or a 1.2.3 snapshot? (http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_RELENG_7_1/pfSense_RELENG_1_2/livecd_installer/)

And just to confirm, this is during the boot from the image, and not the boot from the HD after install, right?

MrJones · Jun 2, 2009, 11:20 PM

Righto, I will give that a go today.

Yes, this is booting from the CD image.

MrJones · Jun 3, 2009, 1:16 AM

I ended up putting in an IDE HDD instead of the SATA drive and it seems to be working now.