Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:31:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: walton@nordicrecords.com Cc: ambrisko@whistle.com, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad 770 Message-ID: <199907091531.IAA85350@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <19990709031137.24875.qmail@modgud.nordicrecords.com> from Dave Walton at "Jul 9, 99 03:11:37 am"
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Dave Walton writes: | Quoting Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>: | | > If you have more then 64M you need to set MAXMEM to the size your machine | > says. Also set flags 0x10 on your keyboard. Both are done in your kernel | > config file. | | I thought I saw in the mailing list that 0x10 no longer exists in 3.2? Could be but it doesn't hurt to have it set ... note the device changed to atkbd0 when syscons was split out. My machine seems to boot more reliably with that flag then without. It could have been something else though. | Quoting Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>: | | > The amount of memory that exists is about 512K *less* than FreeBSD | > thinks, due to the way that IBM maps the BIOS and other stuff. | > | > You need to set MAXMEM to the amount of memory listed at bootup on the | > upper-left corner, and all will be well. | | Ah, now I understand the MAXMEM suggestions! (I assume the boot floppy works | because it has MAXMEM set relatively low?) | | I have not yet had a chance to get back to this problem, but when I do... As | Doug mentions, these settings are in the kernel config. How am I supposed to | recompile the kernel if I can't boot the computer after install?? I did it by pulling out the extra DIMM (mine came with 2 64M DIMMs) ... or atleast that is what I remember doing. Note I did the first install with 3.2 then I upgraded to current. Also in current, MAXMEM isn't needed with the recent VM86 memory size change. So life should get better. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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