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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 1996 16:40:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jim Dennis <jimd@mistery.mcafee.com>
To:        davidg@Root.COM (David Greenman)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Added more RAM -- BIOS sees it, kernel doesn't
Message-ID:  <199604092340.QAA02278@mistery.mcafee.com>

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	David,

	I feel like this is a stupid question but I have to ask --
	I just added 64M to a machine here -- boosting it to 
	128M RAM -- and the kernel (top, pstat -T, and dmesg) all
	report only 64Mb.

	I've heard that this has something to do with limitations
	in the BIOS (Int 12h?) reporting to (BootEasy???) and that 
	I have to provide this as a boot time kernel parameter.

	I'll go look through the config but if you could point me in 
	the right direction that would be cool.

	How do I tell FreeBSD 2.1 to use the full 128M of RAM?

	(A copy of the `dmesg` output is appended)


	Also regarding the MD5 passwd suite:  I have a table of 
	login names and plaintext passwords that I need add to 
	one of my boxes as a set of passwd file entries.

	Can I get away with simply running the plaintext of the 
	passwords through md5sum, prepending the $1$ and building
	the rest of the passwd entries around that (and yanking them
	into a vipw session)?

	Thanks for your indulgence.  I've copies this to the 
	freebsd-questions mailing list on freebsd.org as well.


:r ! rsh fbsb2 'dmesg' 
FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb  8 16:27:02 PST 1996
    root@ftphost.mcafee.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/FTPHOST
CPU: 133-MHz Pentium 735\\90 or 815\\100 (Pentium-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x52b  Stepping=11
  Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,PSE,MCE,CX8,APIC>
real memory  = 67108864 (65536K bytes)
avail memory = 63016960 (61540K bytes)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
sio2 not found at 0x3e8
sio3 not found at 0x2e8
lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
lpt1 not found at 0xffffffff
lpt2 not found at 0xffffffff
mse0: wrong signature ff
mse0 not found at 0x23c
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: NEC 72065B
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
ahc1 not found
ahb0 not found
aha0 not found at 0x330
aic0 not found at 0x340
wt0 not found at 0x300
1 3C5x9 board(s) on ISA found at 0x300
ep0 at 0x300-0x30f irq 5 on isa
ep0: aui/utp[*UTP*] address 00:a0:24:11:45:6d irq 5
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
Probing for devices on the PCI bus:
chip0 <Intel 82437 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:0
chip1 <Intel 82371 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:7
ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci0:13
ahc0: aic7870 Ultra Single Channel, SCSI Id=7, aic7870, 255 SCBs
ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
(ahc0:6:0): "CONNER CFP4207S  4.28GB 1524" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0(ahc0:6:0): Direct-Access 4096MB (8388608 512 byte sectors)
vga0 <VGA-compatible display device> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:15
changing root device to sd0a
in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 2400
in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 1600
in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 1066
in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 710




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