Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 17:43:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Brian Tiemann <btman@ugcs.caltech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A couple of intermediate-bie questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701174212.26370P-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626112336.26539R-100000@lionking.org>
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On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Brian Tiemann wrote: > Well, I'd say I'm skiing the blue-square slopes of FreeBSD these > days, rather than the green-circles, but I've got a couple of things I'd > like to ask rather than just blindly throwing myself into it. (I know, I'm > a wimp. :) What? :-) > Question one: I've compiled my kernel with MAXMEM=130048 to > account for the fact that when I put the new server online, it'll have > 128MB of physical RAM. However, the machine is a replacement for an older > one, and the RAM is in the old one (I'm borrowing 64MB at the moment to > set it up.) Will the kernel-configged ~128MB RAM limit cause a problem if > I boot it on a machine with only 64MB? The server is actually doing stuff > right now, so I'm not willing to reboot and just find out, unless I really > need to. Never versions of FreeBSD detect the memory size correctly and shouldn't require MAXMEM anymore, but yes it should work (MAXimum MEMory, not fixed). > Question two: The new machine is 2.2.6, and I'm used to 2.2.2. > When I first booted 2.2.6, I was surprised to be given a "Boot: BSD (F1)" > prompt (or something similar). I hit F1 and it booted, somewhat > differently-looking from how I expected, but without trouble. My old > machine would give a "boot:" prompt and then boot the default kernel > (with the spinning hyphen-bar) in just a few seconds. I guess this might > be a result of my having installed the bootloader differently, or > something, but whatever. So my question is this: Will the default kernel > boot on its own if I don't hit F-anything? I didn't wait long enough last > time to find out, and the server won't have a console connected when it's > live, so it's important to me to know if rebooting requires console > interaction. :) Looks like you installed BootEasy. It'll timeout after a second or two to the last OS you booted. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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