From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 17 6: 0:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bender.cl.msu.edu (bender.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3264B1529C for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 06:00:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from muk@bender.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from muk@localhost) by bender.cl.msu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA44802 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:01:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from muk) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:01:19 -0500 From: "Matthew A. Kolb" To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory probe finds only 64Mb Dell 2300 Message-ID: <19991117090119.A44760@bender.cl.msu.edu> References: <3832AE0E.7331B5F0@tpgi.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3832AE0E.7331B5F0@tpgi.com.au>; from eirvine@tpgi.com.au on Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 12:30:54AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yep. we have 50+ of the 2300's and had to set MAXMEM on all of them. (the 64mb to 256mb jump was nice...hehehe) Apparently, the bios isn't passing the memory information properly on startup. ./kolb On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 12:30:54AM +1100, eirvine wrote: > Hi, > > Earlier last week I took delivery of a Dell 2300 with > 128 Mb of RAM. Both the 3.3 Release Generic kernel > and a fresh 3.3 stable kernel failed to probe the RAM > correctly, and only found 64 Mb. > > A new kernel with MAXMEM set to 128*1024 found all the RAM > and seems to be going fine. > > I thought this was no longer expected behaviour. Should I > collect full details (BIOS version, dmesg, motherboard) and > submit a full report? Or is this just normal? > > Eddie. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Matthew A. Kolb Michigan State University SCNC 110 Computer Center (517)355-4500 x 124 kolb@bender.cl.msu.edu "bugs?! we didn't have any bugs!" -jpc on SCNC v1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message