From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 20 16:54:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gate.lustig.com (lustig.ne.mediaone.net [24.91.125.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72BAC37B61E for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 16:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barry@lustig.com) Received: (qmail 89530 invoked from network); 20 May 2001 23:53:29 -0000 Received: from gate.lustig.com (HELO lustig.com) (barry@205.246.2.242) by gate.lustig.com with SMTP; 20 May 2001 23:53:29 -0000 Message-ID: <3B0858F9.1E483EEE@lustig.com> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 19:53:29 -0400 From: Barry Lustig Organization: Barry Lustig & Associates, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Boot time memory issue Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was curious whether the memory limitation on the Sony VAIO Z505 machines was an actual hardware limitation or a marketing issue. I just tried adding a 256MB module to my machine. The BIOS seemed to mostly recognize it. It did see 320MB of RAM, but had problems when testing all of it. Current (from a couple of weeks ago) boots, but gives me: Too many holes in the physical address space, giving up and comes up showing 64MB of RAM. Is this something that can be worked around, or have I run up against an actual hardware limit on the machine? barry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message