From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 14:41:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29553 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:41:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mental ([207.113.85.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29436 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:41:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by mental (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA00442; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:40:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@cncn.com) X-Authentication-Warning: mental: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:40:37 -0500 (EST) From: Spike Gronim X-Sender: spork@mental Reply-To: spork To: Jakob Alvermark cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 512MB ram? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA29464 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jakob Alvermark wrote: > Hello. > > I've got a nice machine over here. A Pentium II-MMX 300 MHz with 512 Mb > RAM. But, it seems like I can't use all the RAM... :( > With the generic kernel, it detects 64 megs. I recompiled the kernel with > the option MAXMEM=(512*1024) and rebooted. The sees the memory, but then > directly panics with "bounce memory out of range" right after it prints > the "real memory" message. I tried setting MAXMEM to 256 megs (256*1024) > and it worked. But I want to use all of my memory, not half :( > > What can be the problem? Please cc: me, I'm not on this list. > > /Jakob Alvermark > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Teligent AB, P.O. Box 213, S-149 23 Nynäshamn, Sweden > Telephone +46-(0)8 520 660 00 * Fax +46-(0)8 520 193 36 > Direct +46-(0)8 520 660 32 * GSM +46-(0)70 792 16 57 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > What version of FBSD are you running? -Spike Gronim spork@cncn.com "Hacker, n: One who hacks real good" --Computer Contradictionary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message