Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:31:18 +1030 From: "Malcolm McGrath" <mjmac@pineview.net> To: <doc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: The FAQ-- a request for an addition to it: Message-ID: <001f01c054e8$ea898200$28ba26cb@apollo>
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Could you please add in the FAQ that you will need to recompile the kernel somewhere in the section of the FAQ below. I assumed wrongly that this option was like kernel boot time option and went around half arsed looking for it. :). Thanks for reading this email. Malcolm McGrath (Yes i am a newbie.) <QUOTE FROM FAQ> >3.11. I have 128 MB of RAM but the system only uses 64 MB. >Due to the manner in which FreeBSD gets the memory size from the BIOS, it >can only detect 16 bits worth of Kbytes in size (65535 Kbytes = 64MB) (or >less... some BIOSes peg the memory size to 16M). If you have more than >64MB, FreeBSD will attempt to detect it; however, the attempt may fail. > >To work around this problem, you need to use the kernel option specified >below. There is a way to get complete memory information from the BIOS, but >we don't have room in the bootblocks to do it. Someday when lack of room in >the bootblocks is fixed, we'll use the extended BIOS functions to get the >full memory information...but for now we're stuck with the kernel option. > >options "MAXMEM=n" > >Where n is your memory in Kilobytes. For a 128 MB machine, you'd want to >use 131072. </QUOTE> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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