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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 17:21:02 +1000 (EST)
From: Andrew Perry <andrew@python.shoal.net.au>
To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Re : FreeBSD having problems detecting RAM?
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I hate to ask the obvious, but when your machine starts does it count to
64MB or 8MB (assuming your machine checks memory at startup)

Andrew Perry

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 11:49:08 +0800 (WST)
> From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re : FreeBSD having problems detecting RAM?
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I have a pentium machine that now has 64mb RAM in it.
> However most of the time it detects *only* 8mb RAM.
> I've compiled numerous test kernels, with and without
> MAXMEM set to 65536 but it still comes up as 8mb RAM.
> 
> Has anyone come across this before?
> 
> (Its running 2.2.1-RELEASE)
> 
> If anyone needs more info, just ask.
> 
> Thankyou,
> 
> -- 
> Adrian Chadd			| UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ...
> <adrian@psinet.net.au>		| (also known as the Good, the bad and the
> 				|				ugly..)
> 
> 
>