From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 26 15:30:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boispop1.bois.uswest.net (boispop1.bois.uswest.net [207.108.224.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EA9D15182 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:30:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kvgu@uswest.net) Received: (qmail 29024 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 1999 22:29:40 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 29011 invoked by uid 0); 26 Jul 1999 22:29:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lhotse) (207.225.37.154) by boispop1.bois.uswest.net with SMTP; 26 Jul 1999 22:29:40 -0000 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990726163757.00868eb0@pop.bois.uswest.net> X-Sender: kvgu@pop.bois.uswest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:37:57 -0600 To: Erin Fortenberry , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ken Subject: RE: Only 16MB RAM in a 200MB box In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, a bit more info. I've got 3 other boxes, all running 3.2, each sporting 128 MB RAM, and all using generic 3.2 kernel. So now I need to compile a custom kernel just to use 200MB? This is FreeBSD- not NT! Thanks for your output, btw. I'll delve deeper into this. Ken At 03:12 PM 7/26/99 -0700, Erin Fortenberry wrote: >I believe you do something like this in the kernel: > >options "MAXMEM=(192*1024)" > > >Erin > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ken [SMTP:kvgu@uswest.net] >> Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 3:22 PM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Only 16MB RAM in a 200MB box >> >> Greets: >> >> I just upgraded a 300 MHz Compaq Proliant 1600 that prevously had only 64 >> MB RAM to 198MB. The bios sees it just fine, but when I boot up FreeBSD >> (3.2 Stable) it's only reporting 16MB. Bummer, eh? >> >> I recall seeing a thread about this a few weeks back, but can't seem to >> locate it. Can somebody please clue me into the problem and solution for >> this? >> >> Thanks- Ken >> >> The box said "requires Win95 or better"... >> So I installed it on FreeBSD;-) >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message