Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 13:10:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Craig Shrimpton <craigs@os.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD will not see mem above 16MB but PC does. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961105131012.6710C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9611051539.B10537-0100000@solar.os.com>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Craig Shrimpton wrote: > I have FBSD 2.1-STABLE on a Compaq Presario (has funky bios) and I've > just added another 32MB RAM. On boot the PC saw the new memory and > autoconfiged it. However, FBSD will only see 16MB of it. How wierd. Does the BIOS see it too? > I had a similar problem with another machine but I wanted to go over > 64MB. That required the MAXMEM parameter in the config file. Is that > necessary in this case or is there some conflict with the Presarios and > FBSD? Well, this _is_ a Compaq we're talking about, not the paramount of PC compatibility. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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