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Date:      Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:37:57 -0600
From:      Ken <kvgu@uswest.net>
To:        Erin Fortenberry <erinf@lusardi.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Only 16MB RAM in a 200MB box
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.19990726163757.00868eb0@pop.bois.uswest.net>
In-Reply-To: <AFB0749029D0D211AD3900902728125103AA79@MAIL>

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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;-)
>> 
>> 
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