From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 8:26:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f11.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B320737B400 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:26:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:26:31 -0800 Received: from 24.234.61.240 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:26:31 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.234.61.240] From: "Chris Angell" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RAM Memory Question Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:26:31 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Feb 2002 16:26:31.0665 (UTC) FILETIME=[5B074E10:01C1BA2B] 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 Helpers, I have a FreeBSD machine running 4.5 Release. This machine has 256 megs of ram. On startup, FreeBSD (or the boot loader?) recognizes the ram. It sees all 256 megs. The message reads something like "BIOS Reports 256789Kb". When the kernel takes over booting, it complains something like "Memory Hole in physical memory, giving up". The error is NOT in DMESG, though DMESG does say that this machine has only 150 megs of real and 142 megs of available memory. Does anyone have any ideas? This machine is a new 1 Ghz Athlon with two sticks of PC-133 SDRAM. This problem is rather puzzling. Usually, in my experiences, ram either does its thing like it's supposed to, or simply renders the machine inoperable. Thanks, Chris Angell. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message