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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:57:32 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.4-RELEASE and ThinkPad 770Z with 256MB memory 
Message-ID:  <200001121657.IAA02419@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:46:35 MST." <200001121646.JAA04479@mt.sri.com> 

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> > > I think you're right about what the problem is, but the solution will be a
> > > little trickier in this case--the 770Z has 128MB built in.
> > > 
> > 
> > What if you interrupt the boot process (hit a spacebar before
> > the 10 seconds are up)...
> > 
> > disk0s4a> set kern.vm.kmem.size=67108864
> 
> This is set too late in the boot process, since it's after the memory
> sizing has been done.

That's correct; you want hw.physmem, but in 4.x where that's available 
the memory probe itself has been improved to the point where it's not 
typically necessary to set it...

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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