Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 11:57:42 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt" <allen@vonderschmidt.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM in a Compaq 2500. Message-ID: <20030522165741.GB1694@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <000e01c3207b$2e02d670$140a0aac@avlaptop> References: <000e01c3207b$2e02d670$140a0aac@avlaptop>
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In the last episode (May 22), Wm. Allen Vonderschmidt said: > I have a Compaq 2500 with 256MB of RAM installed. I have > removed the Win2K server installed and replaced it with FreeBSD > 4.8-RELEASE. According to sysctl I seem to only have 12MB of RAM > (hw.physmem: 12099584). Win2K was seeing all 256MB until it was > replaced. Any suggestions as to where to check for the disconnect? > Thanks in advance. Compaq's don't return the right values to the BIOS memory calls, so you have to override the results. Try adding this to /boot/loader.conf: hw.physmem="256M" -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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