From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 22:52:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.tradesearch.co.za (www.tradesearch.co.za [196.25.235.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC8B537B407 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntsupport1 (tradepage.co.za [192.96.43.48]) by www.tradesearch.co.za (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.2) with SMTP id for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:53:50 +0200 From: "Martin Potgieter" To: Subject: memory holes Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 07:56:42 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I installed FreeBSD 4.4 Release on a old pentium 75 with 32 Megs of RAM. At first it would not boot, even from the cd. Then I enabled "memory hole at 16M" option in the bios and all worked fine. Problem is that the installation only sees 16 megs of RAM. Must I disable the memory hole in the BIOS and rebuild the kernel with MAXMEM option or is there a parameter I can pass at boot time to tell FreeBSD to use all the memory.. Where would I put this boot time parameter /boot/loader.conf ?? I am not using any ISA devices. Thanks for any help, Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message