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    From Sulev-Madis Silber@freebsd-stable-freebsd-org730@ketas.si.pri.ee to muc.lists.freebsd.stable on Sun Sep 28 04:47:56 2025
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    On September 28, 2025 4:11:37 AM GMT+03:00, Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 27/09/2025 23:49, vermaden wrote:
    rCa default 256MB vRAM ... and that one fails due to lack of RAM. rCa


    256 MiB might be good for root-on-UFS with a _minimal_ installation using legacy files (not packages).

    <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=287719#c6>

    For a non-minimal installation, I'd allow more memory.
    files are ok too, if you just install it elsewhere. doesn't matter if it's big machine, embedded, vm. i mainly imagine this is sbc which actually needs this
    i heard efi loader can't do <256m but
    but
    i recently did tests (with installer)
    those (a copy):
    14.3:
    95m - still boots multiuser
    94m - kernel won't boot (load fully?)
    89m - loader can't load kernel at all
    65m - loader won't load
    panic: Could not malloc 163840 bytes with M_WAITOK from /usr/src/sys/contrib/ope
    nzfs/module/zstd/zfs_zstd.c line 788
    2m - "loader loader" won't load, just spins a bar a bit
    1m - same
    <1m - nothing boots (really a 64bit machine with less than 1m ram?)
    tests performed by:
    qemu-system-x86
    _64 -m x -display curses -k sv -rtc base=localtime -drive file=FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE
    -amd64-memstick-custom.img,format=raw,discard=unmap,detect-zeroes=unmap
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