From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 01:10:51 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id BAA21659 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:10:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from falcon.adelaide.on.net (falcon.adelaide.on.net [192.231.203.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id BAA21647 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 01:10:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from Bogdan (ppp56.adelaide.on.net.au) by adelaide.on.net (PMDF V5.0-6 #18321) id <01ICTGBRI6O0007ENR@adelaide.on.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 09 Dec 1996 19:40:42 +0930 Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 18:34:49 +0930 From: Bogdan Roszkowski Subject: memory > 16MB ??? Cc: questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <32ABD631.791D@adelaide.on.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hi all... i have been using linux for a while now and have decided to try freebsd 2.1.0... can anyone help me with getting freebsd to use memory above 16mb??? i have a Dell omniplex 590 with 64mb ram... when the kernel boots i can see the following: bios base 635k != rtc base 640k bios mem 64848k != rtc mem 16384k ...then a few lines later it says: real mem = 16384k aval mem = 13xxxk when the system comes up, it can only see 16mb of my memory!!! i've looked through all the docs, but can't find anything else to set (i've tried using bounce buffers) thanks in advance. :) michal.