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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 1997 21:18:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      The Devil Himself <fullermd@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re : FreeBSD having problems detecting RAM?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970407211545.6229D-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970408114704.4810B-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>

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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I have a pentium machine that now has 64mb RAM in it.
> However most of the time it detects *only* 8mb RAM.
> I've compiled numerous test kernels, with and without
> MAXMEM set to 65536 but it still comes up as 8mb RAM.
> 
> Has anyone come across this before?
> 
> (Its running 2.2.1-RELEASE)

Not particularly, but I have a similar problem.
Cyrix 166, w/ 24 MB of RAM installed.
95 setects and uses it just fine, but FreeBSD would only see 16MB.
I didn't have the Hard drive space to get the source dist and recompile my
kernel.
I posted a question and got various suggestions, such as going into kernel
config and setting memsize or iosize on npx0 to 24576 (memsize in KB).
I tried all these suggestions to no avail.

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