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Date:      Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:10:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Ellard <ellard@eecs.harvard.edu>
To:        Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: specifying RAM size at boot?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.51.0308160743010.2476@bowser.eecs.harvard.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200308160220.h7G2KTTh001418@ambrisko.com>
References:  <200308160220.h7G2KTTh001418@ambrisko.com>

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On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Doug Ambrisko wrote:

> | I thought this was configurable by setting a variable in
> | /boot/loader.conf and rebooting, but I haven't been able to find the
> | right variable(s).  (someone suggested MAXMEM, but this doesn'
> | seem to do anything at all.)
>
> I think it is
> 	hw.physmem=<size>
>
> I used it at a prior company.

Thanks!  That works perfectly.

I eventually also found this info in /boot/loader.help, which is the
text source of the help screens for the loader.

-Dan



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